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most citedCan Gravitons Be Detected?

138 citations · 478 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.hist-ph2024

Does Require Relativity?

Tony Rothman

It is universally believed that with his 1905 paper "Does the inertia of a body depend on its energy content?" Einstein first demonstrated the equivalence of mass and energy by mak…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

Graviton-Photon Oscillations in an Expanding Universe

Peter Anninos, Tony Rothman, Andrea Palessandro

Through the Gertsenshtein effect, the presence of a large external B-field may allow photons and gravitons to mix in a way that resembles neutrino oscillations and is even more sim…

gr-qc2023★ 22 cited

A Simple Derivation of the Gertsenshtein Effect

Andrea Palessandro, Tony Rothman

As shown by Gertsenshtein in 1961, an external magnetic field can catalyze the mixing of graviton and photon states in a manner analogous to neutrino-flavor oscillations. We first…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Autocatalysis of Graviton Production via the Gertsenshtein Effect for the Yang-Mills Field

Andrea Palessandro, Tony Rothman

As shown by Gertsenshtein in 1961, an external magnetic field can couple electromagnetic to gravitational waves, giving rise to oscillations between them. Viewed as a quantum proce…

gr-qc2021

Addendum to "Hasenöhrl and the Equivalence of Mass and Energy"

Tony Rothman

This addendum addresses several objections regarding accelerating cavities in the paper by Boughn and Rothman, "Hasenöhrl and the Equivalence of Mass and Energy," arXiv:1108.2250.

gr-qc2018★ 4 cited

Direct Detection of Universal Expansion by Holonomy in the McVittie Spacetime

Tony Rothman, Mariam Campbell, Rituparno Goswami +1

In general relativity the parallel transfer of a vector around a closed curve in spacetime, or along two curves which together form a closed loop, usually results in a nonzero defi…