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Employing the publicly available CosmoLattice code, we conduct numerical simulations of a domain wall network and the resulting gravitational waves (GWs) in a radiation-dominated Universe in the $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field model. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 I. Dankovsky , E. Babichev , D. Gorbunov , S. Ramazanov , A. Vikman

We study the interaction between gravitational waves and a quantum two-level system consisting of a spin 1/2 particle using the formalism of the proper detector frame. This approach highlights the effects of gravitational waves on both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Gravitational waves are propagating undulations in the spacetime fabric, which interact very weakly with their environment. In cosmology, gravitational-wave distortions are produced by most of the inflationary scenarios and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Despoina Pazouli , Christos G. Tsagas

A theory for the spin wave eigenmodes of a Dzyaloshinskii domain wall is presented. These walls are N\'eel-type domain walls that can appear in perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin ferromagnets in the presence of a sizeable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-07 Pablo Borys , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

We evaluate the impact of domain-wall annihilation on the currently ongoing and planned gravitational wave experiments, including a case in which domain walls experience a frictional force due to interactions with the ambient plasma. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi , Norimi Yokozaki

In easy-plane ferromagnets, we show that the interplay between a domain wall and a spin wave packet can be formulated as the collision of two massive particles with a gravity-like attraction. In the presence of magnetic dissipation, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Jin Lan , Jiang Xiao

We study domain wall induced by spontaneously broken $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry and its gravitational wave signature in the standard model with a complex scalar in connection with dark matter physics. In a minimal setup, a linear term of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Hieu The Pham , Eibun Senaha

Interaction of a domain wall with boundaries of a system is studied for a class of stochastic driven particle models. Reflection maps are introduced for the description of this process. We show that, generically, a domain wall reflects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Popkov

If gaugino condensations occur in the early universe, domain walls are produced as a result of the spontaneous breaking of a discrete R symmetry. Those domain walls eventually annihilate with one another, producing the gravitational waves.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Fuminobu Takahashi , T. T. Yanagida , Kazuya Yonekura

We analyze the interaction of plane '+'-polarized gravitational waves with a Fabry-Perot cavity in the local Lorentz frame of the cavity input mirror outside of the range of long-wave approximation with the force of radiation pressure taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey P. Tarabrin

Reflection of a normal incident matter wave by a perfectly reflecting wall moving with a constant velocity is investigated. A surprising phenomenon is found-that if the the wall moves faster than the phase velocity of the incident wave,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pi-Gang Luan , Yee-Mou Kao

We investigate the spectrum of stochastic gravitational wave background generated by hybrid topological defects: domain walls bounded by strings and monopoles connected by strings. Such defects typically decay early in the history of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xavier Martin , Alex Vilenkin

We report experimental observation of the refraction and re ection of propagating magnetostatic spin waves crossing a 90-degree domain wall (DW) in terms of time-resolved magneto-optical imaging. Due to the magnetization rotation across the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Tomosato Hioki , Rei Tsuboi , Tom. H. Johansen , Yusuke Hashimoto , Eiji Saitoh

We discuss the gravitational Higgs mechanism in domain wall background solutions that arise in the theory of 5-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert gravity coupled to a scalar field with a non-trivial potential. The scalar fluctuations in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Zurab Kakushadze , Peter Langfelder

The interaction of propagating dipolar spin waves with magnetic domain walls is investigated in square-shaped microstructures patterned from the Heusler compound Co$_2$Mn$_{0.6}$Fe$_{0.4}$Si. Using magnetic force microscopy, the reversible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 P. Pirro , T. Koyama , T. Brächer , T. Sebastian , B. Leven , B. Hillebrands

The observation of gravitational waves has opened a new window into the Universe through gravitational-wave astronomy. However, high-frequency gravitational waves remain undetected. In this work, we propose that spin systems can be employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiamin Liang , Mingqiu Li , Yu Gao , Wei Ji , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan

Domain walls can form after breakdown of a discrete symmetry induced by first-order phase transition, we study the heavy dark matter produced around the temperature of the phase transition that yields the breakdown of a $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Xin Deng , Xuewen Liu , Jing Yang , Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

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

Local and global gravitational effects induced by eternal vacuum domain walls are studied. We concentrate on thin walls between non-equal and non-positive cosmological constants on each side of the wall. These vacuum domain walls fall in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-17 Mirjam Cvetič , Stephen Griffies , Harald H. Soleng

We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro