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Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

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We propose a novel mechanism for photon-dark photon mass state oscillations mediated by gravitational separation during propagation through the interstellar medium. This phenomenon establishes a new avenue for the detection of dark matter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Zhang Bo , Luo Cui-Bai

We study possibilities of creation and detection of oscillating gravitational fields from lab-scale high energy, relativistic sources. The sources considered are high energy laser beams in an optical cavity and the ultra-relativistic proton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Felix Spengler , Dennis Rätzel , Daniel Braun

Mechanical resonators are gradually becoming available as new quantum systems. Quantum optics in combination with optomechanical interactions (quantum optomechanics) provides a particularly helpful toolbox for generating and controlling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-02 Markus Aspelmeyer , Simon Groeblacher , Klemens Hammerer , Nikolai Kiesel

We develop a theoretical framework to describe the full interaction between vector vortex light fields and gravitational waves (GWs). Using perturbation theory and the canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field, we calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole merger in 2015 September and may soon observe signals from neutron star mergers. There is considerable…

It is shown that accurate photometric observations of a relatively high--magnification microlensing event ($A\gg 1$), occurring close to the line of sight of a gravitational wave (GW) source, represented by a binary star, can allow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ragazzoni , G. Valente , E. Marchetti

We present an overview of experimental work to embed high-Q mesoscopic mechanical oscillators in microwave and optical cavities. Based upon recent progress, the prospect for a broad field of "cavity quantum mechanics" is very real. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. A. Regal , K. W. Lehnert

The lensing of Gravitational Waves (GWs) due to intervening matter distribution in the universe can lead to chromatic and achromatic signatures in the wave-optics and geometrical-optics limit respectively. This makes it difficult to model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Aniruddha Chakraborty , Suvodip Mukherjee

Application of the large scale gravitational wave interferometers for measurement of geophysical signals at very low frequencies is considered. Analysis is concentrated on the mechanism of penetration of quasistatic geophysical perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Gusev , V. N. Rudenko , I. S Yudin

The ultrahigh-frequency (above 10 kHz) gravitational waves (GW) window provides a unique opportunity to detect primordial GWs, free from astrophysical foregrounds that dominate lower frequencies. A stochastic GW background in this range is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Xinyao Guo , Haixing Miao , Zhi-Wei Wang , Huan Yang , Ye-Ling Zhou

A review of coherent and collective quantum optical effects like superradiance and coherent population trapping in mesoscopic systems is presented. Various new physical realizations of these phenomena are discussed, with a focus on their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tobias Brandes

The search for experimental demonstrations of the quantum behavior of macroscopic mechanical resonators is a fastly growing field of investigation and recent results suggest that the generation of quantum states of resonators with a mass at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 C. Genes , A. Mari , D. Vitali , P. Tombesi

After first reviewing the gravitational wave (GW) spectral classification. we discuss the sensitivities of GW detection in space aimed at low frequency band (100 nHz-100 mHz) and middle frequency band (100 mHz-10 Hz). The science goals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 Wei-Tou Ni

The third observing run of advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA brought unprecedented sensitivity towards a variety of quasi-monochromatic, persistent gravitational-wave signals. Continuous waves allow us to probe not just the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Andrew L. Miller

When the gravitational lensing of the large-scale structure is calculated from a cosmological model a few assumptions enter: $(i)$ one assumes that the photons follow unperturbed background geodesics, which is usually referred to as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Robert Reischke , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

A tentative detection of gravitational-wave echoes in the post-merger signal of GW170817 has been recently claimed at $4.2\sigma$ significance level. It has been speculated that the signal might provide evidence for near-horizon quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-29 Paolo Pani , Valeria Ferrari

Viewing high-redshift sources at near-opposite directions on the sky can assure, by light-travel-time arguments, acausality between their emitted photons. One utility would be true random-number generation, by sensing these via two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Eric Steinbring

The photon motion in a Michelson interferometer is re-analyzed in both geometrical optics and wave optics. The classical paths of the photons in the background of gravitational wave are derived from Fermat principle, which is the same as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Zhe Chang , Chao-Guang Huang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

As a space-borne gravitational wave observatory, TianQin can observe a large variety of gravitational wave sources. The rich signals can be composed by different types of astronomical systems, like Galactic compact binaries, inspiral of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Yi-Ming Hu