{"title":"Extended datasamples under the lens of Brane World Theory","authors":"Kyra Jacobo and Dorian Araya","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adda89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adda89","url":null,"abstract":"This work revises the Brane World Theory known as Randall Sundrum with the modification of an exponential, redshift-dependent brane tension. This model is studied in a scenario assuming no dark energy, with the aim of determining whether it can reproduce the Universe’s acceleration on its own, without the addition of a dark energy fluid. Bayesian Statistical analysis is performed in order to constrain the free parameters of each scenario for which the datasamples of SLS, SNIa, OHD and BAO are used, the last two considering newly added elements on the data. Both Planck and Riess priors for h are used and compared. In both cases we are able to reproduce the late-time accelerated expansion in agreement with observational data. Interesting consistencies at transition redshift zt with ΛCDM are found suggesting that this might be a suitable model for studying the evolution of the Universe up to present date, however, some pathologies are detected in this model, namely a ‘Big Rip’ divergence of H(z) at z = 1, as well as a strong relationship between the form of the functional for the brane tension and the future evolution of the Universe in this model.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"1 1","pages":"115014"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dynamic theory of entanglement for uniformly accelerated atoms","authors":"M S Soares, G Menezes and N F Svaiter","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adda8b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adda8b","url":null,"abstract":"We study the entanglement dynamics of accelerated atoms using the theory of open quantum systems. We consider two atoms traveling along different hyperbolic trajectories with different proper times. We use the generalized master equation to discuss the dynamics of a pair of dipoles interacting with the electromagnetic field. The fundamental role played by proper acceleration in the entanglement harvesting and sudden death phenomenon is discussed. Finally, we discuss how the polarization of the atoms affects our results. For some choices of the polarization’s configuration, we no longer observe the entanglement harvesting phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brill waves with slow fall-off towards spatial infinity","authors":"Lydia Bieri, David Garfinkle and James Wheeler","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add5b7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add5b7","url":null,"abstract":"We compute families of solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations of the type of Brill waves, but with slow fall-off towards spatial infinity. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for physical data and numerically construct some representative solutions. We numerically construct an explicit example with slow-off which does not exhibit antipodal symmetry at spatial infinity.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"27 1","pages":"115011"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possibility analysis of a flat cuboid Au–Pt alloy test mass employed in space gravitational wave detection","authors":"Zi-He Huang, Yan-Chong Liu and Ze-Bing Zhou","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add837","url":null,"abstract":"Space-based gravitational wave detection generally employs kilogram-scale cubic test masses. The flat cuboid test mass for gravity satellites has the advantages of lightweight, low remanent magnetic moment, low preload force requirement and convenient ground testing. The paper analyses the relationship between acceleration noise and dimensions, identifying that the flat cuboid Au–Pt alloy test mass is promising for space-based gravitational wave detection. The scheme proposed in the paper adopts a new electrostatic control strategy, avoiding the noise of rotating electrostatic control in a sensitive direction. Based on this scheme, theoretical analysis shows that the flat cuboid Au–Pt alloy test mass can achieve a performance of about between to , limited by Brownian noise, random charging noise and magnetic noise. Finally, the paper presents the performance of test masses in different dimensions, finding that increasing the side length along the sensitive direction is the most efficient optimisation for performance in the low frequency range. The flat cuboid Au–Pt test mass represents a potential inertial sensor scheme for space-based gravitational wave detection.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"18 1","pages":"115010"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas Demos, Slawomir Gras, Matthew Evans, Peter O’Brien, Garilynn Billingsley and Liyuan Zhang
{"title":"Substoichiometric silica in a multimaterial highly reflective coating","authors":"Nicholas Demos, Slawomir Gras, Matthew Evans, Peter O’Brien, Garilynn Billingsley and Liyuan Zhang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add2c6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add2c6","url":null,"abstract":"Gravitational-wave detectors impose exceptionally rigorous demands on optical coatings, which include high reflectivity, low thermal noise, low absorption, low scatter, and minimal defect counts. Simultaneously satisfying the thermal noise and absorption requirements is particularly challenging. One promising approach is to use three or more materials in a single coating. In this work we characterize such a multimaterial coating made using low index silica (SiO2), high index tantala (Ta2O5), and high index substoichiometric silica (SiO ). We find that by using a multi-material structure, we achieve a more than 1000-fold reduction in optical absorption relative to a mirror made solely of SiO and SiO2. Exploration of the SiO deposition parameter space may allow for further optimization and we present one possible optimized coating design that may reduce coating thermal noise by 20% relative to the coatings used in current detectors.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"146 1","pages":"115012"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandru Chirvasitu, Rafael Dahmen, Karl–Hermann Neeb and Alexander Schmeding
{"title":"On the singularities of the exponential function of a semidirect product","authors":"Alexandru Chirvasitu, Rafael Dahmen, Karl–Hermann Neeb and Alexander Schmeding","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add786","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the Fréchet–Lie groups of the form resulting from smooth flows on compact manifolds M fail to be locally exponential in several cases: when at least one non-periodic orbit is locally closed, or when the flow restricts to a linear one on an orbit closure diffeomorphic to a torus. As an application, we prove that the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group of symmetries of an asymptotically flat spacetime is not locally exponential.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144145708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supermassive binary black holes and current status of their multimessenger observations","authors":"Youjun Lu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adc4b0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adc4b0","url":null,"abstract":"Supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) are natural products of the hierarchical mergers of galaxies with central black holes in the Λ cold dark matter cosmogony. We briefly introduce the formation and evolution processes of SMBBHs and population synthesis modeling of SMBBHs across cosmic time. Both the semi-analytical analysis and numerical simulations suggest that close SMBBHs are abundant in the Universe, with rich electromagnetic signatures and enormous gravitational wave radiation. However, observational evidence for their existence is still uncertain. We summarize the current status of the electromagnetic searches and observations of these binaries, focusing on their morphological signatures, continuum spectra, line properties, and periodic variations modulated by their orbital motions. We review pulsar timing array observations of nanohertz gravitational waves from these SMBBHs, including from gravitational wave signals from individual SMBBH sources and the stochastic background from the whole population of SMBBHs. Finally, we discuss the prospects of multimessenger studies for SMBBHs.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144130133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the symmetry of Special Quantum Relativity","authors":"Otto C W Kong","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add838","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum reference frame as in the example of observing a quantum particle from another has been a topic of much recent interest. Quantum spatial translations, quantum rotations, and quantum Lorentz boosts in the sense have been studied to some extent. The article aims at using a consistent formulation of all that to give a full picture of what would be the symmetry of Special Quantum Relativity as special relativity as seen from quantum particles. We first look at a direct formulation of the mathematical quantum analog of any classical one-parameter Lie group of such transformations suggested by our Heisenberg picture thinking of quantum mechanics. A quantum rotation and a quantum Lorentz boost are presented. Analysis of the compositions of two such transformations shows unnatural results with various problems, especially with their commutators. From a physical point of view, we argue for a modified formulation. A quantum reference frame transformation, as the description of firstly the spacetime position of an object, idealized as a particle, as seen from another has to involve a full set of four-coordinate quantum quantities instead of one in a single coordinate only. Unlike the classical case, we illustrate that the analog of a change by the zero classical coordinate values has nontrivial effects in the transformation. A consistent full picture of the symmetry is then obtained. Results that could be interpreted essentially as the quantum analogs of the translation of a single coordinate observable, including angular ones for a rotation or a boost, can be retrieved from that but only as approximations. Under the traditional perspective of relativity symmetry being about spacetime reference frames, our task is then completed. We further look at the quantum version of Heisenberg–Weyl symmetry and perspectives on its relation with the subject matter and argue for the necessity of our background noncommutative geometric perspective for a conceptual consistent story.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144130135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first law and weak cosmic censorship for de Sitter black holes","authors":"Daisuke Yoshida and Kaho Yoshimura","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add787","url":null,"abstract":"We apply Iyer–Wald’s covariant phase space formalism to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes and establish the thermodynamic first law, expressed in terms of the Abbott–Deser mass. Similar to Iyer–Wald’s first law for asymptotically flat black holes, our first law applies to general asymptotically de Sitter perturbations around a Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter black hole, without imposing any symmetry for the perturbations. We explicitly derive the first law up to the second order in perturbation. Additionally, we apply this first law to a thought experiment involving the overcharging of a Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter black hole by injecting energy and charge sources. We find that asymptotically de Sitter black holes cannot be overcharged, provided that the null energy condition holds, thereby reinforcing the weak cosmic censorship conjecture.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"134 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144130136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel D Tootle, Leonardo R Werneck, Thiago Assumpção, Terrence Pierre Jacques and Zachariah B Etienne
{"title":"Accelerating numerical relativity with code generation: CUDA-enabled hyperbolic relaxation","authors":"Samuel D Tootle, Leonardo R Werneck, Thiago Assumpção, Terrence Pierre Jacques and Zachariah B Etienne","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/add63e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/add63e","url":null,"abstract":"Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as Cosmic Explorer, the Einstein Telescope, and LISA, demand highly accurate and extensive GW catalogs to faithfully extract physical parameters from observed signals. However, numerical relativity (NR) faces significant challenges in generating these catalogs at the required scale and accuracy on modern computers, as NR codes do not fully exploit modern GPU capabilities. In response, we extend NRPy, a Python-based NR code-generation framework, to develop NRPyEllipticGPU—a CUDA-optimized elliptic solver tailored for the binary black hole initial data problem. NRPyEllipticGPU is the first GPU-enabled elliptic solver in the NR community, supporting a variety of coordinate systems and demonstrating substantial performance improvements on both consumer-grade and HPC-grade GPUs. We show that, when compared to a high-end CPU, NRPyEllipticGPU achieves on a high-end GPU up to a sixteenfold speedup in single precision while increasing double-precision performance by a factor of 2–4. This performance boost leverages the GPU’s superior parallelism and memory bandwidth to achieve a compute-bound application and enhancing the overall simulation efficiency. As NRPyEllipticGPU shares the core infrastructure common to NR codes, this work serves as a practical guide for developing full, CUDA-optimized NR codes.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144113981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}