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We show that the parametric resonance of gravitational waves occurs due to the axion coherent oscillation and the circular polarization of gravitational waves is induced by the Chern-Simons coupling. However, we have never observed these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Daiske Yoshida , Jiro Soda

We propose the gravitational analog of the chiroptical effect for the first time, demonstrating that gravitational waves (GWs) can induce a reversal of photon chirality through the exchange of angular momentum, namely the spin-2-gravitation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan

Einstein's equivalence principle suggests a deep connection between matter and spacetime, prompting the question: if matter violates parity, must gravity? This letter explores the detection of parity violation in gravity using gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-25 Indranil Chakraborty , Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

The standard model of particle physics is known to be intriguingly successful. However their rich phenomena represented by the phase transitions (PTs) have not been completely understood yet, including the possibility of the existence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Katsuya T. Abe , Yuichiro Tada , Ikumi Ueda

We discuss polarization of gravitational radiation within the standard framework of linearized general relativity. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves provides the impetus to revisit the implications of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Bahram Mashhoon , Sohrab Rahvar

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are supposed to form through the gravitational collapse of regions with large density fluctuations. The formation of PBHs inevitably leads to the emission of scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Chen Yuan , De-Shuang Meng , Qing-Guo Huang

Parity violation in gravity, if existed, could have important implications, and it is meaningful to search and test the possible observational effects. Chern-Simons modified gravity serves as a natural model for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Peng Xu , Zhi Wang , Li-E Qiang

We show that a parity-breaking uniform (averaged over all directions on the sky) circular polarization of amplitude $V_{00} \simeq 2.6 \times 10^{-17}\, \Delta \chi (r/0.06)$ can be induced by chiral gravitational-wave (GW) background with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski

In this article, spatially-structured gravitational waves are investigated. Drawing upon analogies between electrodynamics and general relativity, a new gauge is found. We investigate the polarization and degrees of freedom of the resulting…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-23 James Strohaber

In this review we look into the gauge-dependence of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) that are second-order tensors produced by first-order scalar-modes. The method includes deriving the background, first- and second-order Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Anjali Abirami Kugarajh

Inflationary gravitational waves (GW) contribute to the curl component in the polarization of the CMB. Cosmic shear--gravitational lensing of the CMB-- converts a fraction of the dominant gradient polarization to the curl component.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Kesden , Asantha Cooray , Marc Kamionkowski

Polarizations of primordial gravitational waves can be relevant when considering inflationary universe in modified gravity or when matter fields survive during inflation. Such polarizations have been discussed in the Bunch-Davies vacuum.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda

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

The gravitational potential of a gas of initially randomly distributed primordial black holes (PBH) can induce a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background through second-order gravitational effects. This GW background can be abundantly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Charalampos Tzerefos , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Within the framework of Chern-Simons gravity, a theory that dynamically violates parity, we analyze the power spectrum of gravitational waves in light of the damping effect due to the free streaming relativistic neutrinos and dark fermions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Jinglong Liu , Stephon Alexander , Antonino Marciano

There has been increasing interest in investigating the possible parity violating features in the gravity theory and on the cosmological scales. In this work, we consider a class of scalar-nonmetricity theory, of which the Lagrangian is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Zheng Chen , Yang Yu , Xian Gao

Gravitational waves (GWs) may be produced by various mechanisms in the early universe. In particular, if parity is violated, it may lead to the production of parity-violating GWs. In this paper, we focus on GWs on the scale of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

Gravitational waves (GWs) can undoubtedly serve as a messenger from the early Universe acting as well as a novel probe of the underlying gravity theory. In this work, motivated by one-loop vacuum-polarization effects on curved spacetime, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Charalampos Tzerefos , Salvatore Capozziello , Gaetano Lambiase

At second-order, scalar perturbations can source traceless and transverse perturbations to the metric, called induced gravitational waves (IGW). The apparent gauge-dependence of the IGW obscures the interpretation of the stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 James Gurian , Donghui Jeong , Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh