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Nonlinear gravitational wave memory is a surprise of theoretical physics. Whereas it is understood that a gravitational wave induces oscillatory squeezing and stretching motion in a collection of freely-falling test masses, it is unexpected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Robert R. Caldwell

We initiate the study of gravitational wave (GW) signals from first-order phase transitions in supersymmetry-breaking hidden sectors. Such phase transitions often occur along a pseudo-flat direction universally related to supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-02 Nathaniel Craig , Noam Levi , Alberto Mariotti , Diego Redigolo

We investigate the gravitational memory effect for linearized perturbations off of Minkowski space in odd spacetime dimensions $d$ by examining the effects of gravitational radiation from classical point particle scattering. We also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

Accurate and fast calculations of localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR) in metallic nanoparticles is essential for applications in sensing, nano-optics, and energy harvesting. Although full-wave numerical techniques such as the…

We study the resolution of discontinuous singularities in gas dynamics via multi-dimensional rarefaction waves. While the mechanism is well-understood in one spatial dimension, the rigorous construction in higher dimensions has remained a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Haoran He , Qichen He

In this short paper, we propose a new quantum effect that naturally emerges from describing the quantum particle as a classical fluid. Following the hydrodynamical formulation of quantum mechanics for a particle in a finite convex region,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Tomer Shushi

We study a molecular dimer model that takes higher order interaction term as well as antisymmetric term into account. We mainly focus on the theoretical quantum properties that are of interest. We numerically diagonalize the system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 S. A. Owerre

The method of geodesic deviations has been applied to derive accurate analytic approximations to geodesics in Schwarzschild space-time. The results are used to construct analytic expressions for the source terms in the Regge-Wheeler and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-26 G. Koekoek , J. W. van Holten

Quantum effects of plasmonic phenomena have been explored through ab-initio studies, but only for exceedingly small metallic nanostructures, leaving most experimentally relevant structures too large to handle. We propose instead an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Wei Yan , Martijn Wubs , N. Asger Mortensen

Enhancing superconductivity through material design is a central goal in quantum materials research. Moire engineering, where twisting stacked layers creates long-wavelength modulations and flat bands, has shown how electronic correlations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-18 T. Bauch , F. Lombardi , G. Seibold

Analyzing the consequences of the quantum geometry induced by the momentum dependence of Bloch states has emerged as a very rich and active field in condensed matter physics. For instance, for the superfluid stiffness or the pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-24 Denis Sedov , Mathias S. Scheurer

We study the relationship between shockwave geometries and the gravitational memory effect in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime. In particular, we show the 't Hooft commutation relations of shockwave operators are equivalent to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-05 Temple He , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Kathryn M. Zurek

We employ Maxwell's equations formulated in Space-Time Algebra to perform discretization of moving geometries directly in space-time. All the derivations are carried out without any non-relativistic assumptions, thus the application area of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Mariusz Klimek , Stefan Kurz , Sebastian Schoeps , Thomas Weiland

This paper investigates the non-linear self-interaction of quadrupole gravitational waves generated by an isolated system. The vacuum Einstein field equations are integrated in the region exterior to the system by means of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Luc Blanchet

Matter wave interferometry is becoming an increasingly important technique in quantum metrology. However, unlike its photonic counterpart, this technique relies on the interference of particles possessing a non-zero rest mass and an…

We discuss a 1+2 dimensional model with unconventional supersymmetry at the boundary of an AdS${}_4$, \,$\mathcal{N}$-extended supergravity. The resulting features of the supersymmetric boundary open the possibility of describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Antonio Gallerati

We investigate when plane-wave memory admits standard outgoing free data beyond the idealized sandwich-wave approximation. For a Brinkmann plane wave with profile $A(U)$, the commonly used condition $A(U)|_{U\to\infty}=0$ is not sufficient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Qi-Liang Zhao , Li-Ming Cao

In this paper we study quantum simulation algorithms on the elastic wave equations using the Schr\"odingerisation method. The Schr\"odingerisation method transforms any linear PDEs into a system of Schr\"odinger-type PDEs -with unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Shi Jin , Chundan Zhang

Stochastically perturbed Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equations are widely used to describe the effect of random perturbations on coherent solitary waves. We present a collective coordinate approach to describe the effect on coherent solitary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-11 Madeleine Cartwright , Georg A. Gottwald

We investigate gravitational radiation memory and its corresponding effect on the asymptotic symmetries of a body whose exterior is a boosted Schwarzschild spacetime. First, in the context of linearized theory, we consider such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-22 Thomas Mädler , Jeffrey Winicour