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Impulsive gravitational plane waves, which have a delta-function singularity on a hypersurface, can be obtained by squeezing smooth plane gravitational waves with Gaussian profile. They exhibit (as do their smooth counterparts) the Velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , P. A. Horvathy

Wavefield speckle patterns are generated by interference of randomly scattered coherent light. In the weak-coupling regime of the It\^o-Schr\"odinger paraxial model for long-distance wave propagation, we show the following multiscale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Guillaume Bal , Anjali Nair

We obtain a set of exact gravitational wave solutions for the ghost free bimetric theory of gravity. With a flat reference metric, the theory admits the vacuum Brinkmann plane wave solution for suitable choices of the coefficients of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-16 Morteza Mohseni

We investigate the response of a model gravitational wave detector consisting of two particles to the quantized cylindrical gravitational waves and obtain a relation between the standard deviation of the distance between two particles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-30 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

We study the evolutions of selected quasi-(1+1) dimensional wavepacket solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation for a relativistic charged particle in uniform motion or accelerated by a uniform electric field in Minkowski space. We explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yu-Che Huang , Fong-Ming He , Shih-Yuin Lin

The challenge of defining a physical notion of gravitational waves, together with the associated dynamical degrees of freedom of a gravity theory, is a long-standing problem that famously lead to the discovery the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Jann Zosso

We revisit the computation of the classical gravitational waveform for a particle moving in a plane wave background using on-shell amplitudes. We emphasize the relationship between gravitational memory and the boundary conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Andrea Cristofoli , Sonja Klisch

We discuss an approach to gravitational waves based on Geometric Algebra and Gauge Theory Gravity. After a brief introduction to Geometric Algebra (GA), we consider Gauge Theory Gravity, which uses symmetries expressed within the GA of flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-13 Anthony N. Lasenby

The present work investigates some exact solutions of the gravitational wave equation in some widely used cosmological spacetimes. The examples are taken from spatially flat and closed isotropic models as well as Kasner metric which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-06 Sushovan Mondal , Saif Ali , Shanima S , Narayan Banerjee , Golam Mortuza Hossain

Gravitational-wave displacement memory is a remarkable and ubiquitous phenomenon predicted by general relativity, which has not yet been detected. Unlike the oscillatory components of gravitational waveforms, displacement memory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yan Cao , Yong-Liang Ma , Yong Tang

A gravitational wave pulse, while passing through spacetime, brings about a change in the relative separation between free particles. This `memory effect' serves as one of the signatures of gravitational waves. In this paper, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Sucheta Datta , Sarbari Guha , Deeshani Mitra

Cosmological phase transitions are a frequent phenomenon in particle physics models beyond the Standard Model, and the corresponding gravitational wave signal offers a key probe of new physics in the early Universe. Depending on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Giulio Barni , Simone Blasi , Eric Madge , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

We give an account of the gravitational memory effect in the presence of the exact plane wave solution of Einstein's vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact description of the soft gravitons and how their presence may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 P. M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

Two novel results for the gravitational memory effect are presented in this paper. We first extend the formula for the memory effect to solutions with arbitrary two surface boundary topology. The memory effect for the Robinson-Trautman…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-24 Pujian Mao , Xiaoning Wu

The gravitational wave memory effect is characterized by the permanent relative displacement of a pair of initially comoving test particles that is caused by the passage of a burst of gravitational waves. Recent research on this effect has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols

We study the motion of a gyroscope located far away from an isolated gravitational source in an asymptotically flat spacetime. As seen from a local frame tied to distant stars, the gyroscope precesses when gravitational waves cross its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Ali Seraj , Blagoje Oblak

Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory component of the radiation field that provides a potentially powerful but as yet undetected probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first calculation of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Silvia Gasparotto , Jann Zosso , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We consider gravitational wave production by bubble collisions during a cosmological first-order phase transition. In the literature, such spectra have been estimated by simulating the bubble dynamics, under so-called thin-wall and envelope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Ryusuke Jinno , Masahiro Takimoto

Quasi-periodic oscillations of high density thick accretion disks orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole have been recently addressed as interesting sources of gravitational waves. The aim of this paper is to compare the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alessandro Nagar , Jose A. Font , Olindo Zanotti , Roberto De Pietri

It is well known that two types of gravitational wave memory exist in general relativity (GR): the linear memory and the non-linear, or Christodoulou memory. These effects, especially the latter, depend on the specific form of Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Song Ming Du , Atsushi Nishizawa