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Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory component of the radiation field that provides a potentially powerful but as yet undetected probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first calculation of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Silvia Gasparotto , Jann Zosso , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In this study, the authors employ the analogy between continuum mechanics and general relativity to investigate, from the perspective of elasticity and crystal plasticity, the deformations of space measured by LIGO/VIRGO interferometers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 David Izabel , Yves Remond , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in an expanding cosmology. For simplicity, we treat the case where the cosmology is de Sitter spacetime, and discuss the possibility of generalizing our results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Shing-Tung Yau

We present some new derivations of the effect of a plane gravitational wave on a light ray. A simple interpretation of the results is that a gravitational wave causes a phase modulation of electromagnetic waves. We arrive at this picture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Raymond Angélil , Prasenjit Saha

Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity. The detection of the gravitational wave memory can be used to test general relativity and to deduce the property of the gravitational wave source. Quantitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Xiaolin Liu , Xiaokai He , Zhoujian Cao

Understanding the interplay between quantum mechanical systems and gravity is a crucial step towards unifying these two fundamental ideas. Recent theoretical developments have explored how global properties of spacetime would cause a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Flynn Linton , Shubhanshu Tiwari

The nonlinear memory effect is a slowly-growing, non-oscillatory contribution to the gravitational-wave amplitude. It originates from gravitational waves that are sourced by the previously emitted waves. In an ideal gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Marc Favata

In the plane wave spacetime, we find that there will be a precession angle deviation between two free-falling gyroscopes when gravitational waves passed through. This kind of angle deviation is closely related to the well-known standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Ke Wang , Chao-Jun Feng

Circularly polarized gravitational sandwich waves exhibit, as do their linearly polarized counterparts, the Velocity Memory Effect: freely falling test particles in the flat after-zone fly apart along straight lines with constant velocity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

We generalize our previous linear result [1] in obtaining gravitational waves from our piecewise flat model for gravity in 3+1 dimensions to exact piecewise flat configurations describing exact planar gravitational waves. We show explicitly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-28 Maarten van de Meent

The dynamics of pseudo-classical spinning particles in spacetime of gravitational plane waves of general polarization and harmonic profile is studied. The resulting equations of motion are solved exactly and the results are compared with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Morteza Mohseni

We present the first numerical simulations of gravitational waves (GWs) passing through a potential well generated by a compact object in 3-D space, with a realistic source waveform derived from numerical relativity for the merger of two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-22 Jian-hua He

Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity, which has not been detected yet. Amounts of memory events can form a stochastic gravitational wave memory background. Here we find that memory background can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Zhoujian Cao

Gravitational shockwaves produce perturbations of field systems. We study classical scalar and electromagnetic fields and gravitational memory effects left after the action on the fields of plane-fronted gravitational shockwaves. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Dmitri V. Fursaev

We examine gravitational wave memory in the case where sources and detector are in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We consider the case where the universe can be highly inhomogeneous, but the gravitatational radiation is treated in the short…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Nicolas Yunes

We revisit the computation of the classical gravitational waveform for a particle moving in a plane wave background using on-shell amplitudes. We emphasize the relationship between gravitational memory and the boundary conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Andrea Cristofoli , Sonja Klisch

We give an account of the gravitational memory effect in the presence of the exact plane wave solution of Einstein's vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact description of the soft gravitons and how their presence may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 P. M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

We study the free motion of a massive particle moving in the background of a Finslerian deformation of a plane gravitational wave in Einstein's General Relativity. The deformation is a curved version of a one-parameter family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 M. Elbistan , P. -M. Zhang , N. Dimakis , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

We study a novel cubic nonlinear effect, the tails-of-memory, which consist of a combination of the tail effect (backscattering of linear gravitational waves against the curvature of spacetime generated by the source) and the memory effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-16 David Trestini , Luc Blanchet

We study the motion of a gyroscope located far away from an isolated gravitational source in an asymptotically flat spacetime. As seen from a local frame tied to distant stars, the gyroscope precesses when gravitational waves cross its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Ali Seraj , Blagoje Oblak