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We study graviton-photon conversions in an environment of the uniform and constant magnetic field considering Euler-K\"ockel-Heisenberg-type nonlinear corrections in electrodynamics. We take the transverse-tracefree gauge for gravitons and…

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High frequency gravitational waves are the subject of rapidly growing interest in the theoretical and experimental community. In this work we calculate the resonant conversion of gravitational waves into photons in the magnetospheres of…

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In this work, we analyze the implications of graviton to photon conversion in the presence of large scale magnetic fields. We consider the magnetic fields associated with galaxy clusters, filaments in the large scale structure, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 M. S. Pshirkov , D. Baskaran

We use direct numerical simulations of decaying primordial hydromagnetic turbulence with helicity to compute the resulting gravitational wave (GW) production and its degree of circular polarization. We find a clear dependence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Alberto Roper Pol , Sayan Mandal , Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili

In this paper we investigate graviton-photon oscillation in the presence of an external magnetic field in alternative theories of gravity. Whereas the effect of an effective refractive index for the electromagnetic radiation was already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-20 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Mario Coma Diaz , Prado Martin-Moruno

According to electrodynamical equations in curved spacetime we consider the coupling of a linearized weak gravitational wave (GW) to a Gaussian beam passing through a static magnetic field. It is found that unlike the properties of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang-Yu Li , Zhang-Han Wu , Yi Zhang

Electromagnetic methods recently proposed for detecting gravitational waves modify the Michelson phase shift analysis (historically employed for special relativity). We suggest that a frequency modulation analysis is more suited to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Sivasubramanian , Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

It is well known that gravitons can convert into photons, and vice versa, in the presence of cosmological magnetic fields. We study this conversion process in the context of atomic dark matter scenario. In this scenario, we can expect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-02 Emi Masaki , Jiro Soda

The transformation of powerful gravitational waves, created by the coalescence of massive black hole binaries, into electromagnetic radiation in external magnetic fields is revisited. In contrast to the previous calculations of the similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 Alexander Dolgov , Konstantin Postnov

The differential cross-sections for scattering of gravitons into photons on bosons and fermions are calculated in linearized quantum gravity. They are found to be strongly peaked in the forward direction and become constant at high…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Finn Ravndal , Mats Sundberg

Probing the polarization of gravitational waves (GWs) would provide an evidence of graviton, indicating the quantization of gravity. Motivated by the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, we make an attempt to study the possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Qianfan Wu , Weishan Zhu , Longlong Feng

Electromagnetic waves (EMWs) can be generated by gravitational waves (GWs) within a magnetic field via the Gertsenshtein effect. The conversion probability between GWs and EMWs can be enhanced by inhomogeneities in the electron density and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-09 Jian-Kang Li , Wei Hong , Tong-Jie Zhang

Gravitational waves (GWs) can convert into electromagnetic waves in the presence of a magnetic field via the Gertsenshtein-Zeldovich (GZ) effect. The characteristics of the magnetic field substantially affect this conversion probability.…

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Cosmic-rays are charged particles moving in magnetic fields. They not only emit well-known synchrotron photons but also gravitational radiation. We clarify the characteristics of the gravitational wave signal in this specific situation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Aurélien Barrau , Juan García-Bellido , Killian Martineau , Daryna Yushchenko

We study graviton-photon conversion in potential ground-based experiments. From graviton to photon transition, we calculate the cross section of graviton-atom interaction in the presence of spherical atomic electric fields; the obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Jin Dai , Gui-Rong Liang

We discuss polarization of gravitational radiation within the standard framework of linearized general relativity. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves provides the impetus to revisit the implications of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Bahram Mashhoon , Sohrab Rahvar

We study the photon-graviton pair production induced by the propagation of a classical electromagnetic (EM) wave in a Minkowskian spacetime. In our model, the gravitational field is described in terms of the quantized graviton field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Alessandro Ferreri

Gravitons are the quantum counterparts of gravitational waves in low-energy theories of gravity. Using Feynman rules one can compute scattering amplitudes describing the interaction between gravitons and other fields. Here, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Nicola Bartolo , Ahmad Hoseinpour , Giorgio Orlando , Sabino Matarrese , Moslem Zarei

There exist observational evidence to believe the existence of primordial magnetic fields generated during inflation. We study primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) during inflation in the presence of magnetic fields sustained by a gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Sugumi Kanno , Ann Mukuno , Jiro Soda , Kazushige Ueda

We study the propagation of gravitational waves in a collisionless plasma with an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of propagation. Due to resonant interaction with the plasma particles the gravitational wave experiences…

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