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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

A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Simon J. Clark , Robin W. Tucker

We consider interactions of exact (i.e., solutions of full nonlinear field equations) gravitational waves with matter by using the Einstein-Boltzmann equation. For a gravitational wave interacting with a system of massless particles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Morteza Mohseni , Saurya Das

We discuss the conversion mechanism from scalar field to gravitational waves in magnetic background in $f(R)$ gravity minimal coupled to the Maxwell electrodynamics. Applying the conversion in early universe with primordial magnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Salvatore Capozziello , Qingyu Gan

We discuss the semi-classical gravitational wave corrections to Gauss's law, and obtain an explicit solution for the electromagnetic potential. The Gravitational Wave perturbs the Coulomb potential with a function which propagates to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-05 Olamide Odutola , Arundhati Dasgupta

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

It is shown here that a cloud of charged particles could in principle absorb energy from gravitational waves (GWs) incident upon it, resulting in wave attenuation. This could in turn have implications for the interpretation of future data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-04 Thulsi Wickramasinghe , Will Rhodes , Mitchell Revalski

In an external electric or magnetic field, a gravitational wave (GW) may be converted into electromagnetic radiation. We present a coordinate-invariant framework to describe the GW signal in a detector that is based on this effect, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 Wolfram Ratzinger , Sebastian Schenk , Pedro Schwaller

Motion of test particles in the gravitational field associated with an electromagnetic plane wave is investigated. The interaction with the radiation field is modeled by a force term {\it \`a la} Poynting-Robertson entering the equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

Electromagnetic potentials allow for an alternative description of the Maxwell field, the electric and magnetic components of which emerge as gradients of the vector and the scalar potential. We provide a general relativistic analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-01 Panagiotis Mavrogiannis , Christos G. Tsagas

Evolution of electric and magnetic fields in dielectric media, driven by the influence of a strong gravitational wave, is considered for four exactly integrable models. It is shown that the gravitational wave field gives rise to new effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander B. Balakin , Jose' P. S. Lemos

In this paper, we have considered how to detect the processes of plane gravitational waves colliding. The degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez solution describes the collision of plane gravitational waves with aligned linear polarization, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Dongdong Wei , Xinhe Meng , Bin Wang

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

In this paper we consider nonlinear interaction between gravitational and electromagnetic waves in a strongly magnetized plasma. More specifically, we investigate the propagation of gravitational waves with the direction of propagation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Källberg , G. Brodin , M. Bradley

We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from spinning binary systems. We conclude with an introduction to EFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Rafael A. Porto

In the framework of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, we study the dynamics of a gravitationally coupled electromagnetic field. It is shown that the electromagnetic field is able not only to couple to torsion, but also,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 V. C. de Andrade , J. G. Pereira

The object of this contribution is twofold. On one hand, it rises some general questions concerning the definition of the electromagnetic field and its intrinsic properties, and it proposes concepts and ways to answer them. On the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bartolome Coll

The "gravitational memory effect" due to an exact plane wave provides us with an elementary description of the diffeomorphisms associated with soft gravitons. It is explained how the presence of the latter may be detected by observing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-02 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

Gravitational waves (GW) are expected to interact with dark energy and dark matter, affecting their propagation on cosmological scales. In order to model this interaction, we derive a gauge invariant effective equation and action valid for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Antonio Enea Romano

Electromagnetic radiation is known to be associated with certain gravitational waves events, i.e. the collision of binary neutron stars. Establishing this connection is non-trivial. However, if electromagnetic counterparts could be produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Justine Tarrant , Sergio Colafrancesco