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Tidal dissipation in spinning compact binaries imprints characteristic corrections on the late-inspiral gravitational-wave signal. We develop a next-to-leading order post-Newtonian description of dissipative, electric-quadrupolar tides in…

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Starting with on-shell amplitudes compatible with the scattering of Kerr black holes, we produce the gravitational waveform and memory effect including spin at their leading post-Minkowskian orders to all orders in the spins of both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-01 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Carlo Heissenberg , Andreas Helset

A convenient formalism for averaging the losses produced by gravitational radiation backreaction over one orbital period was developed in an earlier paper. In the present paper we generalize this formalism to include the case of a closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 László Á. Gergely , Zoltán I. Perjés , Mátyás Vasúth

We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on \textit{closed} orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Nils Siemonsen

Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkowskian (PM) order these trajectories are obtained in the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Kathrin Stoldt

We study observables in the scattering of classical, spinning objects using the KMOC formalism. In particular, we derive formulas to higher order in spin and one loop $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ for the spin kick and momentum impulse. Our derivation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Juan Pablo Gatica

A generalization of Wilson line operators at subleading power in the soft expansion has been recently introduced as an efficient building block of gravitational scattering amplitudes for non-spinning objects. The classical limit in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

We present a framework for systematic computations of scattering amplitudes for gravitational Raman scattering, -- the inelastic scattering of massless fields off compact relativistic objects. We focus on the small-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Yue-Zhou Li , Julio Parra-Martinez , Zihan Zhou

The leading order finite size effects due to spin, namely that of the cubic and quartic in spin interactions, are derived for the first time for generic compact binaries via the effective field theory for gravitating spinning objects. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-02 Michele Levi , Jan Steinhoff

Waveforms are classical observables associated with any radiative physical process. Using scattering amplitudes, these are usually computed in a weak-field regime to some finite order in the post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton , Sonja Klisch

A well known description of superradiance from pointlike collections of many atoms involves the dissipative motion of a large spin. The pertinent ``superradiance master equation'' allows for a formally exact solution which we subject to a…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-31 Petr A. Braun , Daniel Braun , Fritz Haake , Joachim Weber

Using the recently derived higher spin gravitational Compton amplitude from low-energy analytically continued ($a/Gm\gg1$) solutions of the Teukolsky equation for the scattering of a gravitational wave off the Kerr black hole, observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista

We introduce a novel bootstrap method for classical Compton scattering amplitudes involving two massless gluon/graviton particles and two arbitrary-spin infinite-mass particles in a heavy-mass effective field theory context. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Marcos Skowronek

The secular evolution of a spinning, massive binary system in eccentric orbit is analyzed, expanding and generalizing our previous treatments of the Lense-Thirring motion and the one-spin limit. The spin-orbit and spin-spin effects up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 László Á. Gergely , Zoltán I. Perjés , Mátyás Vasúth

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

In [arXiv:1906.10100], the authors argued that the Newman-Janis algorithm on the space of classical solutions in general relativity and electromagnetism could be used in the space of scattering amplitudes to map an amplitude with external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Samim Akhtar , Arkajyoti Manna , Akavoor Manu

We present a formalism for computing classically measurable quantities directly from on-shell quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss the ingredients needed for obtaining the classical result, and show how to set up the calculation to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 David A. Kosower , Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell

We study the compatibility of recursive techniques with the classical limit of scattering amplitudes through the construction of the classical Compton amplitude for general spinning compact objects. This is done using BCFW recursion on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Kays Haddad

We compute the leading and sub-leading spin effects through the second post-Newtonian order (2PN) in spherical harmonic modes of gravitational waveforms from inspiralling compact binaries in non-circular orbits with non-precessing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-07 Kaushik Paul , Chandra Kant Mishra

Expanding on the recent derivation of tidal actions for scalar particles, we present here the action for a tidally deformed spin-$1/2$ particle. Focusing on operators containing two powers of the Weyl tensor, we combine the Hilbert series…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset