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We present a new framework for characterizing quasinormal modes (QNMs) or resonant states for the wave equation on asymptotically flat spacetimes, applied to the setting of extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes. We show that QNMs can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-15 Dejan Gajic , Claude Warnick

The characteristic oscillations of black holes, as described by their quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum, play a fundamental role in testing general relativity with gravitational waves. The so-called parametrized QNM framework was introduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Spyros Thomopoulos , Sebastian H. Völkel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We briefly review the analytical continuation method for determining quasinormal modes (QNMs) and the associated frequencies in open systems. We explore two exactly solvable cases based on the P\"oschl-Teller potential to show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 M. G. Richarte , J. C. Fabris , A. Saa

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a family of generalized black bounces interpolating between regular black holes and traversable wormhole solutions according to a single extra parameter $a$. Firstly, working with a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Albert Duran-Cabacés , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

A method based off of operator consideration for solving the time evolution of a wave function is developed. The method is applied to free space, constant force and harmonic oscillator potentials where general solutions are derived for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 K. P. Michnicki

We elucidate that a distinctive resonant excitation between quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes emerges as a universal phenomenon at an avoided crossing near the exceptional point through high-precision numerical analysis and theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-10 Hayato Motohashi

The quantum evolution of the Wigner function for Gaussian wave packets generated by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is investigated. In the semiclassical limit $\hbar\to 0$ this yields the non-Hermitian analog of the Ehrenfest theorem for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-04 Eva-Maria Graefe , Roman Schubert

Black hole quasinormal modes (QNMs) can exhibit resonant excitations associated with avoided crossings in their complex frequency spectrum. Such resonance phenomena can serve as novel signatures for probing new physics, where additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Takuya Takahashi , Hayato Motohashi , Kazufumi Takahashi

This paper studies composite quantum systems, like atom-cavity systems and coupled optical resonators, in the absence of external driving by resorting to methods from quantum field theory. Going beyond the rotating wave approximation, it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andreas Kurcz , Antonio Capolupo , Almut Beige , Emilio Del Giudice , Giuseppe Vitiello

When material parameters are fixed, optical responses of nanoresonators are dictated by their shapes and dimensions. Therefore, both designing nanoresonators and understanding their underlying physics would benefit from a theory that…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-08 Wei Yan , Philippe Lalanne , Min Qiu

The evolution of a composite closed system using the integral wave equation with the kernel in the form of path integral is considered. It is supposed that a quantum particle is a subsystem of this system. The evolution of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 A. Yu. Samarin

Relations similar to work and exchange fluctuations have been recently derived for open systems dynamically evolving in the presence of an ancilla. Extending these relations and constructing a non-equilibrium Helmholtz equation we derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 John Goold , Kavan Modi

The aim of the paper is to study the question whether or not equilibrium states exist in open quantum systems that are embedded in at least two environments and are described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator $\cal H$. The eigenfunctions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Ingrid Rotter

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) are ubiquitous throughout photonics and are utilized in a wide variety of applications, but determining these modes remains a formidable task in general. Here we show that by exploiting the structure of Maxwell's…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jörn Zimmerling , Rob Remis

We present a detailed investigation of quasinormal modes (QNMs) for noncommutative geometry-inspired wormholes, focusing on scalar, electromagnetic, and vector-type gravitational perturbations. By employing the spectral method, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Davide Batic , Denys Dutykh , Joudy Jamal Beek

We consider quantum systems which interact strongly with a rapidly varying environment and derive a Schrodinger-like equation which describes the time evolution of the average wave function. We show that the corresponding Hamiltonian can be…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Huerta , J. Wudka

We explore quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the Schwarzschild black hole under a noncommutative (NC) deformation of spacetime, constructed via a Drinfeld twist formalism. In this approach, the usual Regge--Wheeler (axial) and Zerilli (polar)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-20 Nikola Herceg , Tajron Jurić , A. Naveena Kumara , Andjelo Samsarov , Ivica Smolić

The dynamical invariant, whose expectation value is constant, is generalized to open quantum system. The evolution equation of dynamical invariant (the dynamical invariant condition) is presented for Markovian dynamics. Different with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 S. L. Wu , X. Y. Zhang , X. X. Yi

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer the fundamental properties of black holes by analysing the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted as they settle into equilibrium. These resonances, known as quasinormal modes (QNMs), decay rapidly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Pietro Smaniotto , Leonardo Solidoro , Patrik Švančara , Sam Patrick , Maurício Richartz , Carlo F. Barenghi , Ruth Gregory , Silke Weinfurtner

In the resonance model, high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are supposed to be a consequence of nonlinear resonance between modes of oscillations occurring within the innermost parts of an accretion disk. Several models with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Horak