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In a two-dimensional approximation, the probability density and current for a photoelectron near the localization of a quantum vortex are theoretically investigated. The wave function in the momentum representation, which we found earlier,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 N. V. Larionov , Yu. L. Kolesnikov

We theoretically study an impulsively excited quantum bouncer (QB) - a particle bouncing off a surface in the presence of gravity. A pair of time-delayed pulsed excitations is shown to induce a wave-packet echo effect - a partial rephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 I. Tutunnikov , K. V. Rajitha , A. Yu. Voronin , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , I. Sh. Averbukh

We study the parametric resonance excitation of the electromagnetic field by a gravitational wave. We show that there is narrow band resonance. For an electromagnetic field in the vacuum the resonance occurs only in the second band, and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Robert Brandenberger , Paola C. M. Delgado , Alexander Ganz , Chunshan Lin

Oscillating neutron stars are sources of continuous gravitational waves. We study analytically the excitation of stellar oscillations by the mechanical impact on the stellar surface of ''clumps'' of stochastically accreted matter. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-19 Wenhao Dong , Andrew Melatos

Although gravitational waves are now routinely observed, the detection of individual gravitons has long been regarded as impossible. Recent work, however, has demonstrated that single-graviton detection can be achieved and may be feasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Kristian Toccacelo , Thomas Beitel , Ulrik Lund Andersen , Igor Pikovski

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

The effect of a magnetic field on the energy spectrum and on the wave functions of an electron in spherical nano-structures such as single quantum dot and spherical layer is investigated. It is shown that the magnetic field removes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 V. Holovatsky , O. Voitsekhivska , I. Bernik

Based on the freely-falling Unruh-Dewitt model, we study the influence of gravitational waves on the quantum multibody states, i.e. the twin-Fock (TF) state and the mixture of Dicke states. The amount of entanglement of quantum many-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-29 Jiatong Yan , Baocheng Zhang

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs), as well as electron-acoustic solitary structures, play a crucial role in thermalization and acceleration of electron populations in Earth's magnetosphere. These waves are often observed in association with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Donglai Ma , Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Jacob Bortnik , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Xiao-Jia Zhang

Particles in a yet unexplored dark sector with sufficiently large mass and small gauge coupling may form purely gravitational atoms (quantum gravitational bound states) with a rich phenomenology. In particular, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Niklas G. Nielsen , Andrea Palessandro , Martin S. Sloth

We investigate the gravitational wave background induced by the first order scalar perturbations in the curvaton models. We consider the quadratic and axion-like curvaton potential which can generate the blue-tilted power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-09 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The observation of gravitational waves has opened a new window into the Universe through gravitational-wave astronomy. However, high-frequency gravitational waves remain undetected. In this work, we propose that spin systems can be employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiamin Liang , Mingqiu Li , Yu Gao , Wei Ji , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan

Gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein's general relativity theory, appear as ripples in the fabric of spacetime traveling at the speed of light. We prove that the propagation of small amplitude gravitational waves in a curved…

We propose using qumodes, quantum bosonic modes, for detecting high-frequency gravitational waves via the inverse Gertsenshtein effect, where a gravitational wave resonantly converts into a single photon in a magnetized cavity. For an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Azadeh Maleknejad , Saba Shalamberidze

The observation of gravitational waves opens up a new window to probe the universe and the nature of the gravitational field itself. As a result, they serve as a new and promising tool to not only test our current theories but to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Felipe Portales-Oliva , André G. S. Landulfo

We probe electronic excitations between Landau levels in freestanding $N-$layer graphene over a broad energy range, with unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution, using micro-magneto Raman scattering spectroscopy. A characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Stéphane Berciaud , Marek Potemski , Clément Faugeras

The effective mass approximation is used to consider plasma and magnetoplasma waves in an electron system on the surface of the semiconductor cylindrical nanotube. The electron-electron coupling is taken into account in the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 A. M. Ermolaev , G. I. Rashba

Motivated by some of the recent swampland conjectures, we study a model of dark energy, in which a quintessence axion slowly rolls in a steep potential due to its interactions with a U(1) or an SU(2) gauge field. The gauge fields produced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Alexandros Papageorgiou

We explore a novel process in the early Universe in which thermalized photons are converted into gravitons in the presence of strong primordial magnetic fields. It is found that the frequency of generated gravitational waves (GWs) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

In this work, we consider a general gravitational wave detector of gravitational wave interacting with an incoming gravitational wave carrying plus polarization only placed inside a harmonic trap. This model can be well acquainted with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Soham Sen , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Sukanta Bhattacharyya