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The angular and frequency characteristics of the gravitational radiation emitted in collisions of massless particles is studied perturbatively in the context of classical General Relativity for small values of the ratio $\alpha\equiv 2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 Pavel Spirin , Theodore N. Tomaras

We investigate the influence of gravitational waves on a freely falling hydrogen atom by analyzing the dynamics of the bound electron described by the Dirac equation in the curved spacetime of a gravitational wave. From this, we derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-20 Nontapat Wanwieng , Narupon Chattrapiban , Apimook Watcharangkool

Using the thin-layer approach, we derive the effective equation for the electromagnetic wave propagating along a space curve. We find intrinsic spin-orbit, extrinsic spin-orbit and extrinsic orbital angular momentum and intrinsic orbital…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-28 Meng-Yun Lai , Yong-Long Wang , Guo-Hua Liang , Fan Wang , Hong-Shi Zong

The propagation speed of the gravitational wave in scalar--Einstein--Gauss-Bonnet (sEGB) gravity is generally different from that of light. Using differential equation conditions for the speed of gravitational waves to coincide with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei. D. Odintsov

Electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of gravitational wave (GW) events will help shed light on the nature of the sources, and more can be learned if the EM follow-ups can start as soon as the GW event becomes observable. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Jing Luan , Shaun Hooper , Linqing Wen , Yanbei Chen

The equation which governs the temporal evolution of a gravitational wave (GW) in curved space-time can be treated as the Schrodinger equation for a particle moving in the presence of an effective potential. When GWs propagate in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Kostas Kleidis , Demetros B Papadopoulos , Enric Verdaguer , Loukas Vlahos

Analyzing two simple experimental situations we show that from Newton's law of gravitation and Special Relativity it follows that the motion of particle in an external gravitational field can be described in terms of effective spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. D. Flanders , G. S. Japaridze

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GWs), which offer a way to explore cosmic events like binary mergers and could help resolve the Hubble Tension. The Hubble Tension refers to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Rishav Laloo , Prachi Gupta , Arun Kenath

We show that the self-interactions present in the effective field theory formulation of general relativity can couple gravitational wave modes and generate nonclassical states. The output of gravitational nonlinear processes can also be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Thiago Guerreiro

When gravitational waves travel from their source to an observer, they interact with matter structures along their path, causing distinct deformations in their waveforms. In this study we introduce a novel theoretical framework for wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ginevra Braga , Alice Garoffolo , Angelo Ricciardone , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

With laser interferometers, LIGO-Virgo collaboration has recently realized the direct detections of the intermediate-frequency (i.e., from dozens to hundreds of Hertz) gravitational waves (GWs) by probing their mechanically-tidal responses.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 H. Zheng , L. F. Wei , H. Wen , F. Y. Li

We derive the most general mimetic scalar-tensor theory assuming a healthy "seed" action and accounting for the constraints on the speed of gravitational-wave propagation arising from the GW170817 event. By analysing linear perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-13 Alexander Ganz , Nicola Bartolo , Purnendu Karmakar , Sabino Matarrese

Brief review of principal ideas in respect of the high frequency gravitational radiation generated and detected in the laboratory condition is presented. Interaction of electro-magnetic and gravitational waves into a strong magnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-27 N. I. Kolosnitsyn , V. N. Rudenko

The recent direct observation of gravitational waves (GW) from merging black holes opens up the possibility of exploring the theory of gravity in the strong regime at an unprecedented level. It is therefore interesting to explore which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Solomon Endlich , Victor Gorbenko , Junwu Huang , Leonardo Senatore

We discuss two approaches to searches for gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of binary neutron star mergers. The first approach relies on triggering archival searches of GW detector data based on detections of EM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ilya Mandel , Luke Z. Kelley , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Recent measurements of the propagation of the quasar's radio signal past Jupiter are directly sensitive to the time-dependent effect from the geometric sector of general relativity which is proportional to the speed of propagation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei M. Kopeikin

The effects of physical interactions are usually incorporated into the quantum theory by including the corresponding terms in the Hamiltonian. Here we consider the effects of including the gravitational potential energy of massive particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 J. D. Franson

We compute the contribution to the Lagrangian from the leading order (2.5 post-Newtonian) radiation reaction and the quadrupolar gravitational waves emitted from a binary system using the effective field theory (EFT) approach of Goldberger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Chad R. Galley , Manuel Tiglio

The response of a detector to gravitational wave is a function of frequency. When the time a photon moving around in the Fabry-Perot cavities is the same order of the period of a gravitational wave, the phase-difference due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-01 Zhe Chang , Chao-Guang Huang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

We derive the gravitational radiation-reaction force modifying the Effective One Body (EOB) description of the conservative dynamics of binary systems. Our result is applicable to general orbits (elliptic or hyperbolic) and keeps terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour