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Transient gravitational waves (aka gravitational wave bursts) within the nanohertz frequency band could be generated by a variety of astrophysical phenomena such as the encounter of supermassive black holes, the kinks or cusps in cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Heling Deng , Bence Bécsy , Xavier Siemens , Neil J. Cornish , Dustin R. Madison

We investigate motion of test particles in exact spacetimes with an expanding impulsive gravitational wave which propagates in Minkowski, de Sitter or anti-de Sitter universe. Using the continuous form of these metrics we derive explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc

We investigate the geometrical properties, spectral classification, geodesics, and causal structure of the Bonnor's spacetime [Journal of Physics A Math. Gen., \textbf{10}, 1673 (1977)], i.e., a stationary axisymmetric solution with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Davide Astesiano , Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first order metric perturbation due to the rotation of the non-axisymmetric distribution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

In this work a new mechanics will be studied which is based on the hypothesis that the change of linear momentum of a particle happens as a discrete pulses. By using this hypothesis and by considering Newton's relation between energy and…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Munir Al-Hashimi

The aim of the paper is the consideration of particle collisions in the vicinity of the horizon of rotating black holes. Existence of geodesics for massive and massless particles arising from the region inside of the gravitational radius in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-09 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Lars Meschede , Benjamin Schwager , Dominik Schulz , Jamal Berakdar

In continuation of our previous study [Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 4, 044012], we investigate the motion of charged particles in the $\gamma$-metric. We provide some examples of curled trajectories in the equatorial plane and escape trajectories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-15 Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Daniele Malafarina , Cosimo Bambi

A vacuum medium model is advanced. The motion of a relativistic particle in relation to its interaction with the medium is discussed. It is predicted that elementary excitations of the vacuum, called "inertons," should exist. The equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

A quantum model based on a Euler-Lagrange variational approach is proposed. In analogy with the classical transport, our approach maintain the description of the particle motion in terms of trajectories in a configuration space. Our method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 O. Morandi

Light is the richest information retriever for most physical systems, particularly so for astronomy and cosmology, in which gravitation is of paramount importance, and also for solid state defects and metamaterials, in which some effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-03 Lucas T. Santana , Maurício O. Calvão , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Beatriz B. Siffert

Motion of test particles along rotating curved trajectories is considered. The problem is studied both in the laboratory and the rotating frames of reference. It is assumed that the system rotates with the constant angular velocity $\omega…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andria Rogava , George Dalakishvili , Zaza Osmanov

A novel but elementary geometric construction produces on the seven-dimensional manifold of rotated spheres in Euclidean three-space a finslerian geometry whose geodesics are interpreted as the paths of free, spinning, spherical particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Homer G. Ellis

We study the derivation of the effective equation of motion for a pointlike particle in the framework of quantum gravity. Just like the geodesic motion of a classical particle is a consequence of classical field theory coupled to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-01 Francisco Pipa , Nikola Paunkovic , Marko Vojinovic

We analytically study the linear propagation of arbitrarily shaped light-pulses through an absorbing medium with a narrow transparency-window or through a resonant amplifying medium. We point out that, under certain general conditions, the…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-14 Bruno Macke , Bernard Ségard

Numerical simulations of the NLSE (or GPE) are presented demonstrating emission of short pulses of the matter (light) density formed in the course of tunneling in wave-guided light and/or trapped BEC. The phenomenon is observed under…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Dekel , O. V. Farberovich , A. Soffer , V. Fleurov

We report calculations about the motion of a charged particle in an external electric and magnetic field. The metric for the particle moving on a slope with non-zero traction and coefficient of friction is also evaluated for weak fields. We…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Nitish Yadav , Seema Jangir

Applying the perturbative approach to geodesic equations, we study motion of the test particles in time-dependent spherically symmetric spacetimes created by oscillating dark matter. Assuming the weakness of the gravitational field, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-01 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

A wave pulse (be it a gravitational wave or a light wave) undergoes anomalous dispersion in a vacuum in flat spacetimes with an even number of spatial dimensions even if all the frequencies move at the same speed. Such an anomalous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Emel Altas , Ercan Kilicarslan , Bayram Tekin

Recently, a self-contained trajectory-based formulation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics was developed [Ann. Phys. 315, 505 (2005); Chem. Phys. 370, 4 (2010); J. Chem. Phys. 136, 031102 (2012)], that makes no use of wavefunctions or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 Bill Poirier