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The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam

Gravitational lensing has empowered telescopes to discover astronomical objects that are otherwise out of reach without being highly magnified by foreground structures. While we expect gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Rico K. L. Lo , Luka Vujeva , Jose María Ezquiaga , Juno C. L. Chan

We present the first detailed computations of wave optics effects in the gravitational lensing of binary systems. The field is conceptually rich, combining the caustic singularities produced in classical gravitational lensing with quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-06 Job Feldbrugge , Neil Turok

We explore possible non-Gaussian features of primordial gravitational waves by constructing model-independent templates for nonlinearity parameters of tensor bispectrum. Our analysis is based on Effective Field Theory of inflation that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Abhishek Naskar , Supratik Pal

Modified gravitational wave propagation is a smoking gun of modifications of gravity at cosmological scales, and can be the most promising observable for testing such theories. The observation of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Francesco Iacovelli , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore , Michele Mancarella

The weak equivalence principle of gravity is examined at the quantum level in two ways. First, the position detection probabilities of particles described by a non-Gaussian wave-packet projected upwards against gravity around the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 P. Chowdhury , D. Home , A. S. Majumdar , S. V. Mousavi , M. R. Mozaffari , S. Sinha

Gravitational radiation from known astrophysical sources is conventionally treated classically. This treatment corresponds, implicitly, to the hypothesis that a particular class of quantum-mechanical states -- the so-called coherent states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-19 Sreenath K. Manikandan , Frank Wilczek

We study the impact of quantum corrections to gravitational waveforms on the gravitational wave memory effect. In certain quantum gravity theories and semi-classical frameworks, black holes (or other exotic compact objects) exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 Nils Deppe , Lavinia Heisenberg , Lawrence E. Kidder , David Maibach , Sizheng Ma , Jordan Moxon , Kyle C. Nelli , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu

Particle physics and gravitational waves provide complementary probes of the deep structure of the Universe. Gravitational waves from the mergers of neutron stars and black holes are sensitive to the structure of dense quark matter and to…

Optical and infrared observations have thus far detected more celestial cataclysms than have been seen in gravity waves (GW). This argues that we should search for gravity wave signatures that correspond to flux variability seen at optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-05 Christopher W. Stubbs

Quantum Gravity remains elusive, largely because its observable effects are suppressed by powers of the Planck scale. Direct detection of single gravitons is widely believed to be impossible. Here we propose a concrete astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Panagiotis Dorlis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Sarben Sarkar , Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos

We consider the gravitational effect of quantum wave packets when quantum mechanics, gravity, and thermodynamics are simultaneously considered. Under the assumption of a thermodynamic origin of gravity, we propose a general equation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-04 Hongwei Xiong

As a consequence of the extreme precision of the measurements it performs, an interferometric gravitational wave detector is a macroscopic apparatus for which quantum effects are not negligible. I observe that this property can be exploited…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

We consider the nonunitary quantum dynamics of neutral massless scalar particles used to model photons around a massive gravitational lens. The gravitational interaction between the lensing mass and asymptotically free particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Charles H. -T. Wang , Elliott Mansfield , Teodora Oniga

In the coming years, advanced gravitational wave detectors will observe signals from a large number of compact binary coalescences. The majority of these signals will be relatively weak, making the precision measurement of subtle effects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Aaron Zimmerman , Carl-Johan Haster , Katerina Chatziioannou

Gravitational wave predicted by General Relativity is the transverse wave of spatial strain. Several gravitational waveform signals from binary black holes and from a binary neutron star system accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-02 Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Xi-Long Fan

Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jerzy Paczos , Navdeep Arya , Sofia Qvarfort , Daniel Braun , Magdalena Zych

We show that when the gravitational field is treated quantum-mechanically, it induces fluctuations -- noise -- in the lengths of the arms of gravitational wave detectors. The characteristics of the noise depend on the quantum state of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-22 Maulik Parikh , Frank Wilczek , George Zahariade

We examined the output of a quantum Michelson interferometer incorporating the combined effects of nonlinear optomechanical interaction and time-varying gravitational fields. Our findings indicate a deviation from the standard relationship…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-08 Zhong-Kai Guo , Xiao-Yong Wang