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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

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a quantity explored for communication and quantum technology, its key strength being a wide set of values offering a large basis for q-working. In this context we have studied the vortex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Aurélien Chopinaud , Marion Jacquey , Bruno Viaris de Lesegno , Laurence Pruvost

We study the graviton-photon conversion in the magnetic fields of the Earth, the Milky Way Galaxy, and intergalactic regions. Requiring that the photon flux converted from gravitons does not exceed the observed photon flux with telescopes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Asuka Ito , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

Today, it is well known that light possesses a linear momentum which is along the propagation direction. Besides, scientists also discovered that light can possess an angular momentum (AM), a spin angular momentum (SAM) associated with…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Andy Chong , Chenhao Wan , Jian Chen , Qiwen Zhan

Gravitational waves act like lenses for the light propagating through them. This phenomenon is described using the vector formalism employed for ordinary gravitational lenses, which was proved to be applicable also to a non-stationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Valerio Faraoni

Laser interferometer detectors are now widely used in an attempt to detect gravitational waves (gw). The interaction of the gw with the light circulating in the interferometer is usually explained in terms of the motion of the "free"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Adrian Melissinos , Ashok Das

A detection method for high-frequency gravitational waves using two-dimensional ion crystals is investigated. Gravitational waves can resonantly excite the drumhead modes of the ion crystal, particularly the parity-odd modes. In the optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Asuka Ito , Ryuichiro Kitano , Wakutaka Nakano , Ryoto Takai

In order to detect the quantum nature of gravity, the quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses(QGEM) has been proposed both in flat and curved spacetime. In this paper we propose an analogous QGEM protocol using photons produced in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi Zhang

We study the interaction between gravitational waves and a quantum two-level system consisting of a spin 1/2 particle using the formalism of the proper detector frame. This approach highlights the effects of gravitational waves on both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Vortex $\gamma$ photons with intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM) possess a wealth of applications in various fields, e.g.-strong-laser physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics-yet their generation remains unsettled.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-19 Mamutjan Ababekri , Ren-Tong Guo , Feng Wan , B. Qiao , Zhongpeng Li , Chong Lv , Bo Zhang , Weimin Zhou , Yuqiu Gu , Jian-Xing Li

The recent demonstration of electron vortex beams has opened up the new possibility of studying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the interaction between electron beams and matter. To this aim, methods to analyze the OAM of an electron beam…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-18 Giulio Guzzinati , Laura Clark , Armand Béché , Jo Verbeeck

We theoretically investigate the absorption and emission of light carrying orbital angular momentum (twisted-light) by quasi-two-dimensional (disc-shaped) quantum dots in the presence of a static magnetic field. We calculate the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 G. F. Quinteiro , P. I. Tamborenea

It is shown that accurate photometric observations of a relatively high--magnification microlensing event ($A\gg 1$), occurring close to the line of sight of a gravitational wave (GW) source, represented by a binary star, can allow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ragazzoni , G. Valente , E. Marchetti

First-order phase transitions in the early Universe are a well-motivated source of gravitational waves (GWs). In this Letter, we identify a previously overlooked GW production mechanism: gravitational transition radiation, arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Wen-Yuan Ai

The interaction of a diatomic molecule with photons carrying well-defined angular momentum and parity is investigated to determine whether photon absorption can induce molecular rotational transitions between states having angular momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Thomas B. Bahder

The existence of quantum correlations affects both microscopic and macroscopic systems. On macroscopic systems they are difficult to observe and usually irrelevant for the system's evolution due to the frequent energy exchange with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Roman Schnabel , Mikhail Korobko

Photons with a twisted phase front can carry a discrete, in principle unbounded amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM). The large state space allows for complex types of entanglement, interesting both for quantum communication and for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Mario Krenn , Johannes Handsteiner , Matthias Fink , Robert Fickler , Anton Zeilinger

Particles in quantum vortex states (QVS) carrying definite orbital angular momenta (OAM) brings new perspectives in various fundamental interaction processes. When unique properties arise in the QVS, understanding how OAM manifest itself…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-15 Zhigang Bu , Liangliang Ji , Shaohu Lei , Huayu Hu , Xiaomei Zhang , Baifei Shen

We suggest here a method to detect gravitational waves (GW) different from the interferometric approach. It is based on two critical steps: conversion of the GW action into rotational motion and subsequent conversion into electric current.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-13 A. Gulian , J. Foreman , V. Nikoghosyan , L. Sica , J. Tollaksen , S. Nussinov