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In this paper, we provide a simple and modern discussion of rotational superradiance based on quantum field theory. We work with an effective theory valid at scales much larger than the size of the spinning object responsible for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Solomon Endlich , Riccardo Penco

We consider the inward propagation of warping and eccentric disturbances in discs around black holes under a wide variety of conditions. In our calculations we use secular theories of warped and eccentric discs and assume the deformations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara T. Ferreira , Gordon I. Ogilvie

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional G\"{o}del black hole as a background and we study the vector particle tunneling from this background in order to obtain the Hawking temperature. Then, we study the propagation of a massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-22 P. A. González , Ali Övgün , Joel Saavedra , Yerko Vásquez

We present a concrete picture of spoof surface plasmons (SSPs) combined with cavity resonance to clarify the basic mechanism underlying extraordinary light transmission through metal films with subwavelength slits or holes. This picture may…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-23 X. R. Huang , R. W. Peng , Z. Wang , F. Gao , S. S. Jiang

It is argued that, in order for the gravitational field to be propagated as a wave, it is necessary for it to satisfy a further set of field equations, in addition to those of Einstein and Hilbert, and these equations mean there is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-03 Trevor W. Marshall

Black holes in core-collapse of massive stars are expected to surge in mass and angular momentum by hyper-accretion immediately following their formation. We here describe a general framework of extended emission in gravitational waves from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Amir Levinson , Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Guy Pick

The four-dimensional effective theory for type IIB warped flux compactifications proposed in [1] is completed by taking into account the backreaction of the K\"ahler moduli on the three-form fluxes. The only required modification consists…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Luca Martucci

The Alcubierre spacetime was simulated by means of a Tamm medium which is asymptotically identical to vacuum and has constitutive parameters which are ontinuous functions of the spatial coordinates. Accordingly, the Tamm medium is amenable…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tom H. Anderson , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Solitons in space-time capable of transporting time-like observers at superluminal speeds have long been tied to violations of the weak, strong, and dominant energy conditions of general relativity. This trend was recently broken by a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-04 Erik W. Lentz

The well-known diffusion theory describes propagation of light and electromagnetic waves in complex media. While diffusion theory is known to fail both for predominant forward scattering or strong absorption, its precise range of validity…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-08 Maryna L. Meretska , Ravitej Uppu , Ad Lagendijk , Willem L. Vos

The possibility of a substantial reduction of weight and size of electrical generators is the main incentive behind the effort to develop superconducting armature windings based on coated conductors in the form of wide tapes with large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-04 G. A. Levin , P. N. Barnes

Fractional transport of particles on a comb structure in the presence of an inhomogeneous convection flow is studied. The large scale asymptotics is considered. It is shown that a contaminant spreads superdiffusively in the direction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Iomin , E. Baskin

A theory of light transmission through a quantum well (QW) in a magnetic field perpendicular to the QW plane is developed. The light wave length is supposed comparable with the QW width. The formulas for reflection, absorption and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. I. Korovin , I. G. Lang , D. A. Contreras-Solorio , S. T. Pavlov

In this letter, we show that superluminal neutrinos announced by OPERA could be explained by the existence of a monopole, which is left behind after the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) phase transition of some scalar fields in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-10 Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

Scalar-tensor gravity theories with a nonminimal Gauss-Bonnet coupling typically lead to an anomalous propagation speed for gravitational waves, and have therefore been tightly constrained by multimessenger observations such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-18 José Barrientos , Fabrizio Cordonier-Tello , Cristóbal Corral , Fernando Izaurieta , Perla Medina , Eduardo Rodríguez , Omar Valdivia

We demonstrate analytically that gravitational waves, upon interacting with co-propagating electromagnetic radiation in a plasma, induce distinctive sidebands on the modulated light, thereby providing a detectable signature of their…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis

We investigate relativistic wavepacket dynamics for an electron tunneling through a potential barrier employing space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) equations. We prove by linking the QFT property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Alkhateeb , X. Gutierrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski , A. Matzkin

Processes of propagation and interaction of nonlinear gravity-capillary waves on the free surface of a deep non-conducting liquid with high dielectric constant under the action of a tangential electric field are numerically simulated. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 Evgeny A. Kochurin , Nikolay M. Zubarev

The curvature drift instability has long been considered as a viable mechanism for pulsar radio emission. We reconsidered this mechanism by finding an explicit solution describing propagation of short-wave electro-magnetic waves in a plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Kaganovich , Yuri Lyubarsky

Gauge fields are special in the sense that they are invariant under gauge transformations and \QTR{em}{``ipso facto''} they lead to problems when we try quantizing them straightforwardly. To circumvent this problem we need to specify a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alfredo T. Suzuki , J. H. O. Sales