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We study echoes and what we call 'revival echoes' for a collection of atoms that are described by a single quantum wavefunction and are confined in a weakly anharmonic trap. The echoes and revival echoes are induced by applying two,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Mark Herrera , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Shmuel Fishman

One of the most triumphant predictions of the theory if general relativity was the recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational wave (GW) signals produced in binary black hole (BH) mergers. However, it is suggested that exotic compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Qingwen Wang , Naritaka Oshita , Niayesh Afshordi

In several approaches to evading the information paradox, the semiclassical black hole is replaced by an Exotic Compact Object (ECO). It has been conjectured that gravitational waves emitted by the merger of ECOs can reflect off the ECOs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Bin Guo , Samir D. Mathur

Binary systems containing exotic compact objects may emit repeated bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) following coalescence. Such GW echoes would provide a clear signature of new physics, but searches for them have not yielded a convincing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Aaron Zimmerman , Richard N. George , Yanbei Chen

In the context of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a nonminimal coupling between the electromagnetic and scalar field, we study linear (non)radial perturbations and nonlinear radial dynamics of spherically symmetric black holes. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Marco Melis , Fabrizio Corelli , Robin Croft , Paolo Pani

It has been recently shown that observing pulses isolated from the gravitational radiation transient (also known as echoes) would prove the existence of exotic compact objects (ECOs). Many features of the ringdown signal can be reproduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-30 José T. Gálvez Ghersi , Andrei V. Frolov , David A. Dobre

While recent detections of gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black holes match well with the predictions of General Relativity (GR), they cannot directly confirm the existence of event horizons. Exotic compact objects (ECOs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Qingwen Wang , Niayesh Afshordi

We present an unified approach for the study of idealized gravitational compact objects like wormholes and horizonless stars, here simulated by the presence of boundary conditions at a deeply inner wall. At classical level, namely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-07 L. Sebastiani , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

Gravitational wave (GW) ringdown waveforms may contain "echoes" that encode new physics in the strong gravity regime. It is commonly assumed that the new physics gives rise to the GW echoes whose intervals are constant. We point out that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-14 Yu-Tong Wang , Zhi-Peng Li , Jun Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou , Yun-Song Piao

Relativistic ultracompact objects without an event horizon may be able to form in nature and merge as binary systems, mimicking the coalescence of ordinary black holes. The postmerger phase of such processes presents characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Andrea Maselli , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Black holes are the most compact objects in the Universe. According to general relativity, black holes have a horizon that hides a singularity where Einstein's theory breaks down. Recently, gravitational waves opened the possibility to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Elisa Maggio

Structure at the horizon scale of black holes would give rise to echoes of the gravitational wave signal associated with the post-merger ringdown phase in binary coalescences. We study the waveform of echoes in static and stationary,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Pablo Bueno , Pablo A. Cano , Frederik Goelen , Thomas Hertog , Bert Vercnocke

We present a model for tail wavelets, a phenomenon also known as "echo" in the literature. The tail wavelet may appear in signal reconnaissances in the merger of binary compact objects, including black holes and neutron stars. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-21 Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Xilong Fan , Hongsheng Zhang

We present an analytical and numerical investigation of the quasinormal excitation factors of ultracompact horizonless objects. These systems possess long lived quasinormal modes with extremely small imaginary parts, originating from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Romeo Felice Rosato , Shauvik Biswas , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

The first direct observations of gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO collaboration have motivated different tests of General Relativity (GR), including the search for extra pulses following the GR waveform for the coalescence of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-22 Luis Felipe Longo Micchi , Niayesh Afshordi , Cecilia Chirenti

We present a short review of the analytical aspects of recent progress in the study of black hole spectral instability and its potential observational consequences. This topic, inspired by earlier foundational works, has attracted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Shui-Fa Shen , Guan-Ru Li , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

We propose that a quantum black hole can produce a new kind of late-time gravitational echoes, facilitated by a near-horizon process analogous to Andreev reflection in condensed matter systems. In comparison to the traditional echo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-16 Sreenath K. Manikandan , Karthik Rajeev

A generic feature of nearly out-of-equilibrium dissipative systems is that they resonate through a set of quasinormal modes. Black holes - the absorbing objects par excellence - are no exception. When formed in a merger, black holes vibrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Elisa Maggio , Luca Buoninfante , Anupam Mazumdar , Paolo Pani

In the corpuscular picture of black hole there exists no geometric notion of horizon which, instead, only emerges in the semi-classical limit. Therefore, it is very natural to ask - what happens if we send a signal towards a corpuscular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-06 Luca Buoninfante

Quasinormal modes describe the return to equilibrium of a perturbed system, in particular the ringdown phase of a black hole merger. But as globally-defined quantities, the quasinormal spectrum can be highly sensitive to global structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-18 Lam Hui , Daniel Kabat , Sam S. C. Wong