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We calculate the scalar-induced gravitational wave energy density in the theory of Ghost Inflation, assuming scale invariance and taking into account both the power spectrum- and trispectrum-induced contributions. For the latter we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-06 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Yizhou Lu , Zhiming Shuai

The primordial gravitational waves (\textbf{PGW}) have been generated by inflationary amplification of the primordial (quantum) fluctuations. It is true that they have not been recorded directly so far, but their spectrum can help a lot in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami , Khabat Ghamari

Many early universe scenarios predict an enhancement of scalar perturbations at scales currently unconstrained by cosmological probes. These perturbations source gravitational waves (GWs) at second order in perturbation theory, leading to a…

High-order spatial derivatives are of crucial importance for constructing the low energy effective action of a Lorentz or parity violating theory of quantum gravity. One example is the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity, in one has to consider at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Cheng Gong , Tao Zhu , Rui Niu , Qiang Wu , Jing-Lei Cui , Xin Zhang , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Gravitational waves in general relativity contain two polarization degrees of freedom, commonly labeled plus and cross. Besides those two tensor modes, generic theories of gravity predict up to four additional polarization modes: two scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Katerina Chatziioannou , Maximiliano Isi , Carl-Johan Haster , Tyson B. Littenberg

In this paper, we investigate the Axion-like Particle inflation by applying the multi-nature inflation model, where the end of inflation is achieved through the phase transition (PT). The events of PT should not be less than $200$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wei Cheng , Tao Qian , Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Rui-Yu Zhou

We study the screening mechanism in the most general scalar-tensor theories that leave gravitational waves unaffected and are thus compatible with recent LIGO/Virgo observations. Using the effective field theory of dark energy approach, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Marco Crisostomi , Matthew Lewandowski , Filippo Vernizzi

Recently, the cross-correlation between $E$- and $B$-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is well explained by cosmic birefringence with rotation angle $\beta\approx 0.3$ deg, has been found in CMB polarization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Tomohiro Fujita , Yuto Minami , Maresuke Shiraishi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

A tensor-type cosmological perturbation, defined as a transverse and traceless spatial fluctuation, is often interpreted as the gravitational waves. While decoupled from the scalar-type perturbations in linear order, the tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh

We perform direct numerical simulations to compute the net circular polarization of gravitational waves from helical (chiral) turbulent sources in the early Universe for a variety of initial conditions, including driven (stationary) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

We study a mechanism to produce the circular polarization of primordial gravitational waves. The circular polarization is generated during the super-inflation driven by the Gauss-Bonnet term in the string-inspired cosmology. The instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Satoh , Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda

We investigate the parity-violating effects in primordial gravitational waves (GWs) due to null energy condition (NEC) violation in two very early universe scenarios: bounce-inflation and intermediate NEC violation during inflation. In both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Zi-Wei Jiang , Yong Cai , Fei Wang , Yun-Song Piao

In this paper, we develop a quantum field theory framework to describe the interaction between a gravitational wave (GW) background and an electromagnetic (EM) field emitted from a distant celestial source, such as a star. We demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-14 Fateme Shojaei Arani , Malek Bagheri Harouni , Brahim Lamine , Alain Blanchard

In this paper, we study the gravitational-wave (GW) radiation and radiative behavior of relativistic binary systems in the scale-independent energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG). Using the post-Minkowskian gravity based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Ozgur Akarsu , Elham Nazari , Mahmood Roshan

Departure from idealised plane waves gives rise to intricate geometric structures in wave fields. One such structure is the polarisation singularity, which emerges when multiple monochromatic waves interfere (such as would be the case for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Claire Rigouzzo , Sebastian Golat , Alex J. Vernon , Kyan Louisia , Eugene Lim , Francisco J. Rodriguez-Fortuno

General relativity predicts that gravitational waves are described by two polarisation states: the plus $+$ state and cross $\times$ state. However, alternate theories of gravity allow up to six polarisations. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Shun Yin Cheung , Lachlan Passenger , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

After the inflationary phase, the universe enters the preheating phase, during which the inflaton field rolls down its potential and oscillates. When the potential significantly deviates from a parabolic shape at its minimum, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

Parity violation is a powerful observable to distinguish a cosmological background of Gravitational Waves (GWs) from an astrophysical one. Planar single GW interferometers, both on ground and in space, are unable to measure the net circular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-02 Giorgio Orlando , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone

Gravitational parity violation is a possibility motivated by particle physics, string theory and loop quantum gravity. One effect of it is amplitude birefringence of gravitational waves, whereby left and right circularly-polarized waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-04 Nicolas Yunes , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Benjamin J. Owen , Stephon Alexander

A gravitational wave background is expected to emerge from the superposition of numerous gravitational wave sources of both astrophysical and cosmological origin. A number of cosmological models can have a parity violation, resulting in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Charles Badger , Mairi Sakellariadou
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