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We study graviton-photon conversions in an environment of the uniform and constant magnetic field considering Euler-K\"ockel-Heisenberg-type nonlinear corrections in electrodynamics. We take the transverse-tracefree gauge for gravitons and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

The conversion of gravitational to electromagnetic waves in the presence of background magnetic fields is known as the inverse Gertsenshtein effect, analogous to the Primakoff effect for axions. Rephrasing this conversion as a classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Valerie Domcke , Camilo Garcia-Cely , Sung Mook Lee

The suppression of relic gravitational waves due to their conversion into electromagnetic radiation in a cosmological magnetic field is studied. The coupled system of equations describing gravitational and electromagnetic wave propagation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 A. D. Dolgov , L. A. Panasenko , V. A. Bochko

We study graviton-photon conversion in the presence of stochastic magnetic fields. Assuming Gaussian magnetic fields that may possess nontrivial helicity, and unpolarized gravitational waves (GWs) as the initial state, we obtain expressions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Wataru Chiba , Ryusuke Jinno , Kimihiro Nomura

High-frequency gravitational waves ($f \gtrsim 1$ MHz) may provide a unique signature for the existence of exotic physics. The lack of current and future gravitational-wave experiments sensitive at those frequencies leads to the need of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-29 Alessandro Lella , Francesca Calore , Pierluca Carenza , Alessandro Mirizzi

While photons and gravitons do not interact significantly, photons can be converted to gravitons in a background magnetic field -- a phenomenon known as the Gertsenshtein effect. In this paper, we investigate whether chiral electromagnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Ashu Kushwaha , Rajeev Kumar Jain

A magnetic field enables the interconversion of photons and gravitons, yet the process is usually analysed only at the level of classical wave equations. We revisit photon-graviton conversion in a quantum field theoretic framework, allowing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Taiki Ikeda , Youka Kaku , Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda

High-frequency gravitational waves, particularly in the range $f \gtrsim 10^{10}~\mathrm{Hz}$, represent a compelling probe of physics beyond the Standard Model. Due to the absence of direct detection methods in this frequency regime,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Aman Gupta , Pratik Majumdar , Sourov Roy , Pratick Sarkar

We investigate graviton-photon oscillations sourced by cosmological magnetic fields from Gertsenshtein effect. We adopt a robust perturbative approach and we find that the conversion probability from graviton to photon can be resonantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello , Qingyu Gan

When a gravitational wave or a graviton travels through an electric or magnetic background, it could convert into a photon with some probability. In this paper, a dipole magnetic field is considered as this kind of background in both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Chao-Jun Feng , Ao Guo , Zhong-Ming Xie , Miao Li

High frequency gravitational waves are the subject of rapidly growing interest in the theoretical and experimental community. In this work we calculate the resonant conversion of gravitational waves into photons in the magnetospheres of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-28 Jamie I. McDonald , Sebastian A. R. Ellis

The Gertsenshtein effect could in principle be used to detect a single graviton by firing it through a region filled with a constant magnetic field that enables its conversion to a photon, which can be efficiently detected via standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Andrea Palessandro

We study graviton-photon conversion in potential ground-based experiments. From graviton to photon transition, we calculate the cross section of graviton-atom interaction in the presence of spherical atomic electric fields; the obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Jin Dai , Gui-Rong Liang

In curved spacetime, Maxwell's equations can be expressed in forms valid in Minkowski background, with the effect of the metric (gravity) appearing as effective polarizations and magnetizations. The electric and magnetic (EM) fields depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-25 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

It is well known that gravitons can convert into photons, and vice versa, in the presence of cosmological magnetic fields. We study this conversion process in the context of atomic dark matter scenario. In this scenario, we can expect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-02 Emi Masaki , Jiro Soda

Graviton-photon oscillation is the conversion of gravitational waves to electromagnetic waves and vice versa in the presence of a background electromagnetic field. We investigate this phenomenon in a cosmological scenario considering a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 José A. R. Cembranos , Miguel González Ortiz , Prado Martín-Moruno

This work continues the research presented in the article [1], where we estimate the Gertsenshtein effect's influence on the long-wavelength part of relic gravitational wave spectrum. Here, the differential equation system for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 L. A. Panasenko , A. O. Chetverikov

As shown by Gertsenshtein in 1961, an external magnetic field can catalyze the mixing of graviton and photon states in a manner analogous to neutrino-flavor oscillations. We first present a straightforward derivation of the mechanism by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Andrea Palessandro , Tony Rothman

Defining the electric and magnetic field vectors in curved spacetime requires a proper choice of the observer's frame four-vector. Related literature shows that this fundamental issue in physics still needs to be properly resolved. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

In this work I study the effect of graviton-photon mixing in a constant external magnetic field and find for the first time in the literature exact solution of the equations of motion. In particular, I apply the effect of graviton-photon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Damian Ejlli
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