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We present a systematic framework for computing frequency-domain gravitational waveforms from relativistic binary scattering in different asymptotic regimes. The method yields a controlled series expansion that can in principle be extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Giacomo Brunello , Vsevolod Chestnov , Giulio Crisanti , Mathieu Giroux , Sid Smith

We study the variance in the measurement of observables during scattering events, as computed using amplitudes. The classical regime, characterised by negligible uncertainty, emerges as a consequence of an infinite set of relationships…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , Nathan Moynihan , Donal O'Connell , Alasdair Ross , Matteo Sergola , Chris D. White

The effective quantum field theory description of gravity, despite its non-renormalizability, allows for predictions beyond classical general relativity. As we enter the age of gravitational wave astronomy, an important and timely question…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Thiago Guerreiro , Francesco Coradeschi , Antonia Micol Frassino , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Enrico Junior Schioppa

In this letter a new formula for light deflection is derived using only physically observable concepts. The general result is specialized to cosmological perturbation theory and expressed in terms of gauge--invariant perturbation variables.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Ruth Durrer

We investigate the relationships between classical observables in cosmology and the classical limit of quantum scattering amplitudes. We first look at the relation between Bogoliubov transformations and the notion of classical limit. Then,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-07 Katsuki Aoki , Andrea Cristofoli

Wave-packet scattering from a stationary potential is significantly modified when the wave-packet is subject to an external time-dependent force during the interaction. In the semiclassical limit, wave--packet motion is simply described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 S. Longhi , S. A. R. Horsley , G. Della Valle

Classical limit of multiple soft graviton theorem can be used to compute the angular power spectrum of long wavelength gravitational radiation in classical scattering provided the total energy carried away by the radiation is small compared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

We study gravitational absorption effects using effective on-shell scattering amplitudes. We develop an in-in probability-based framework involving plane- and partial-wave coherent states for the incoming wave to describe the interaction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov

We introduce a classical version of the loop corrected soft graviton theorem and we use it to compute the universal part of the one-loop (2PM) waveform up to sub-subleading order in the energy $\omega$ of the emitted graviton for spinless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 Francesco Alessio , Paolo Di Vecchia

Gravitational observables for binary systems exhibit a simple polynomial dependence on the masses $m_1$, $m_2$ of the two scattering objects when they are written in terms of the appropriate kinematic variables in the post-Minkowskian (PM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

Inspired by recent progress on classical limits of scattering amplitudes, we show that hard thermal loops can be obtained from classical limits of off-shell currents. The classicality of hard thermal loops is made manifest by associating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Leonardo de la Cruz

Localized scattering phenomena may result in the formation of stationary matter waves originating from a compact region in physical space. Mathematically, such waves are advantageously expressed in terms of quantum sources that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias Kramer , Christian Bracher , Manfred Kleber

We show that scattering amplitudes between initial wave packet states and certain coherent final states can be computed in a systematic weak coupling expansion about classical solutions satisfying initial value conditions. The initial value…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Thomas M. Gould , Stephen D. H. Hsu , Erich R. Poppitz

The self-force expansion allows the study of deviations from geodesic motion due to the emission of radiation and its consequent back-reaction. We investigate this scheme within the on-shell framework of semiclassical scattering amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton , Sonja Klisch

Leveraging the computational framework presented in reference [JHEP 07, 062 (2024)], we evaluate the analytic scattering waveform in General Relativity to second order, $G^3 M^3 /r b^2$ and to all orders in velocity. This new representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Giacomo Brunello , Stefano De Angelis , David A. Kosower

In the s-wave approximation the 4D Einstein gravity with scalar fields can be reduced to an effective 2D dilaton gravity coupled nonminimally to the matter fields. We study the leading order (tree level) vertices. The 4-particle matrix…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Fischer , D. Grumiller , W. Kummer , D. V. Vassilevich

We review recent research on the transport properties of classical waves through chaotic systems with special emphasis on microwaves and sound waves. Inasmuch as these experiments use antennas or transducers to couple waves into or out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Kuhl , H. -J. Stoeckmann , R. Weaver

We propose a method to compute the scattering angle for classical black hole scattering directly from two massive particle irreducible diagrams in a heavy-mass effective field theory approach to general relativity, without the need of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gang Chen , Gabriele Travaglini , Congkao Wen

Using a heavy-mass effective field theory (HEFT), we study gravitational-wave emission in the scattering of two spinless black holes or neutron stars of arbitrary masses at next-to-leading order in the Post-Minkowskian expansion. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Stefano De Angelis , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

We consider the scattering of a low-frequency gravitational wave by a massive compact body in vacuum. We apply partial-wave methods to compute amplitudes for the helicity-conserving and helicity-reversing contributions to the cross section,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sam R. Dolan