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We develop a theoretical framework to describe the full interaction between vector vortex light fields and gravitational waves (GWs). Using perturbation theory and the canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field, we calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan

We propose a novel method for detecting gravitational waves (GW), where a light signal emitted from a distant star interacts with a local (also distant) GW source and travels towards the Earth, where it is detected. While traveling in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. B. Lesovik , A. V. Lebedev , V. Mounutcharyan , T. Martin

By utilizing quantum optics techniques, we examine the characteristics of a quantum gravitational wave (GW) signature at interferometers. In particular, we study the problem by analyzing the equations of motion of a GW interacting with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Luca Abrahao , Francesco Coradeschi , Antonia Micol Frassino , Thiago Guerreiro , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Enrico Junior Schioppa

The identification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a fundamental property of a beam of light nearly twenty-five years ago has led to an extensive body of research around this topic. The possibility that single photons can carry OAM has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

Twisted photons carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are competent candidates for future interstellar communications. However, the gravitational fluctuations are ubiquitous in spacetime. Thus a fundamental question arises naturally as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan , Lixiang Chen

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

Vortices are whirling disturbances commonly found in nature ranging from tremendously small scales in Bose-Einstein condensates to cosmologically colossal scales in spiral galaxies. An optical vortex, generally associated with a spiral…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-23 Chenhao Wan , Jian Chen , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

The models currently used in the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) either do not consider a relative motion between the center-of-mass of the source and the observer, or usually only consider its effect on the frequencies of GWs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Xian Chen , Zhoujian Cao , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Peng Peng

Vortex $\gamma$ photons carrying orbital angular momenta (OAM) hold great potential for various applications. However, their generation remains a great challenge. Here, we successfully generate sub-MeV vortex $\gamma$ photons via…

We present a fully quantum field-theoretic framework for gravitational wave (GW) detection in which the interaction is described as photon-graviton scattering. In this picture, the GW acts as a coherent background that induces inelastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 K. Hari , S. Shankaranarayanan

It has been known for a century that electromagnetic fields can transport not only energy and linear momentum but also angular momentum. However, it was not until twenty years ago, with the discovery in laser optics of experimental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Bo Thidé , Fabrizio Tamburini , Elettra Mari , Filippo Romanato , Cesare Barbieri

We study the interaction of laser pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) with structural asymmetry quantum dot molecules characterized by four energy levels. We demonstrate how the inter-dot tunneling endows exchange of optical…

We study the possibility of detecting gravitational-waves with matter-wave interferometers, where atom beams are split, deflected and recombined totally by standing light waves. Our calculation shows that the phase shift is dominated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-02 Dongfeng Gao , Peng Ju , Baocheng Zhang , Mingsheng Zhan

We study theoretically the exchange of angular momentum between a photon beam and a plasma vortex, and demonstrate the possible excitation of photon angular momentum states in a plasma. This can be relevant to laboratory and space plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-05-19 J. T. Mendonça , B. Thidé , J. E. S. Bergman , S. M. Mohammadi , B. Eliasson , W. Baan , H. Then

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-dimensional quantum systems offer many advantages over low-dimensional quantum systems. Meanwhile, unitary transformations on quantum states are important parts in various quantum information tasks, whereas they become technically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Dong-Xu Chen , Yunlong Wang , Feiran Wang , Jun-Long Zhao , Chui-Ping Yang

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of photons are already ubiquitously being used for numerous applications. However, there is a fundamental question whether photonic OAM operators satisfy standard quantum mechanical commutation relationship or…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shinichi Saito

Light with helical phase structures, carrying quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM), has many applications in both classical and quantum optics, such as high-capacity optical communications and quantum information processing. Frequency…

The orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) provides a promising approach for the implementation of multidimensional states (qudits) for quantum information purposes. In order to characterize the degradation undergone by the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Daniele Giovannini , Eleonora Nagali , Lorenzo Marrucci , Fabio Sciarrino

Vortex light, a unique optical field that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a detailed theoretical analysis of OAM transfer from the input field to the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fan Meng , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang
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