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The direct detection of gravitational wave by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory indicates the coming of the era of gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. It is expected that more and more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang , Tao Yang

We revisit the effects of an early matter-dominated era on gravitational waves induced by scalar perturbations. We carefully take into account the evolution of the gravitational potential, the source of these induced gravitational waves,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Keisuke Inomata , Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Nakama , Takahiro Terada

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) open a unique window into early-universe physics. While their generation from adiabatic perturbations has been extensively studied, the contribution from isocurvature perturbations remains largely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Xiang-Xi Zeng

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

We discuss the potential cosmological role of gravitational wave astronomy as a probe of the very early universe. The next generation of detectors - now in production - may be able to observe a stochastic background of gravitational waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Battye , E. P. S. Shellard

Gravity-induced quantum interference is an experiment that exhibits how a gravitational effect appears in quantum mechanics. In this famous experiments gravity was added to the system just classically. In our study we do the related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Mohammad A. Ganjali , Zainab Sedaghatmanesh

The standard linear approach to the gravitational waves theory is critically reviewed. Contrary to the prevalent understanding, it is pointed out that this theory contains many conceptual and technical obscure issues that require further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 J. G. Pereira

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

Since the gravitational waves were detected by LIGO and Virgo, it has been promising that lots of information about the primordial Universe could be learned by further observations on stochastic gravitational waves background. The studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jing-Zhi Zhou , Xukun Zhang , Qing-Hua Zhu , Zhe Chang

First order phase transitions in the early Universe generate gravitational waves, which may be observable in future space-based gravitational wave observatiories, e.g. the European eLISA satellite constellation. The gravitational waves…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-17 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

The primordial spectrum of fluctuations may present a large peak as a result of enhancing features during inflation. This may include, but is not limited to, bumps in the inflaton's potential, phases of ultra-slow-roll or turns in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-30 Shyam Balaji , Guillem Domenech , Joseph Silk

For millennia, humanity has relied exclusively on light$\unicode{x2014}$initially visible light and, later, broader and broader portions of the electromagnetic spectrum$\unicode{x2014}$to observe the universe. In the past decade, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Lucas Martins Barreto Alves

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves which propagate with a speed different from the speed of light. First, we analytically calculate the expression of the power spectrum of the scalar induced gravitational waves which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

We investigate the gravitational wave background induced by the first order scalar perturbations in the curvaton models. We consider the quadratic and axion-like curvaton potential which can generate the blue-tilted power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-09 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The expansion history and content of the Universe between the end of inflation and the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is mostly unknown. In this paper, we study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by matter isocurvature fluctuations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Guillem Domènech , Jan Tränkle

Primordial scalar perturbations that reenter the horizon after inflation may induce a second-order Gravitational Wave spectrum with information about the primordial Universe on scales inaccessible to Cosmic Microwave Background experiments.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Samuel Sánchez López , José Jaime Terente Díaz

A brief introduction to gravitational waves, addressing those questions that nowadays more and more frequently arise within a large audience (not only of insiders): what is a gravity wave, how can it be detected and, above all, what impact…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 M. Gasperini

Upcoming searches for the stochastic background of inflationary gravitational waves (GWs) offer the exciting possibility to probe the evolution of our Universe prior to Big Bang nucleosynthesis. In this spirit, we explore the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-20 Francesco D'Eramo , Kai Schmitz

Induced gravitational waves provide a powerful probe of primordial perturbations in the early universe through their distinctive spectral properties. We analyze the spectral energy density $\Omega_{\text{GW}}$ of gravitational waves induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Chang Han , Zu-Cheng Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu