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Spin-Gravity Coupling in a Rotating Universe

  • Bahram Mashhoon,
  • Masoud Molaei and
  • Yuri N. Obukhov

1 August 2023

The coupling of intrinsic spin with the nonlinear gravitomagnetic fields of Gödel-type spacetimes is studied. We work with Gödel-type universes in order to show that the main features of spin-gravity coupling are independent of causality pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Gravity Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,412 Views
16 Pages

13 March 2019

The junction region of the Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou province (JRSYG) is a multinational community that includes the Hengduan mountainous areas, although its economy is lagging behind other regions in China. This study explored the spatial h...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,131 Views
19 Pages

9 June 2025

We numerically construct compact stars in the scalar–tensor theory of gravity with non-minimal derivative coupling of a scalar field to the curvature and nonzero cosmological constant. There are two free parameters in this model of gravity: the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in 'Physics' Section 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,115 Views
29 Pages

Dynamical Analysis of the Covarying Coupling Constants in Scalar–Tensor Gravity

  • Rodrigo R. Cuzinatto,
  • Rajendra P. Gupta and
  • Pedro J. Pompeia

12 March 2023

A scalar–tensor theory of gravity was considered, wherein the gravitational coupling G and the speed of light c were admitted as space–time functions and combined to form the definition of the scalar field ϕ. The varying c participates in the definit...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,454 Views
31 Pages

Safety Assessment of Concrete Gravity Dams: Hydromechanical Coupling and Fracture Propagation

  • Maria Luísa Braga Farinha,
  • Nuno Monteiro Azevedo and
  • Sérgio Oliveira

For the safety assessment of concrete dam–foundation systems, this study used an explicit time-stepping small-displacement algorithm, which simulates the hydromechanical interaction and considers the discrete representation of the foundation di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fracture Geomechanics—Obstacles and New Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
406 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2026

With the rapid development of offshore engineering, marine cranes are widely deployed in critical maritime operations, such as the precision installation of wind turbine blades. However, their highly coupled three-dimensional spatial dynamics, uncert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Nonlinear Control for Complex MIMO Mechatronic Systems—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
26 Pages

28 September 2026

This study develops a fractional Lord–Shulman thermoelastic formulation for coupled photothermoelastic carrier dynamics in a fiber-reinforced anisotropic semiconductor half-space with magnetic and gravity coupling. The governing thermal, elasti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Functional Materials for Intelligent Sensing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,996 Views
22 Pages

16 January 2020

The precursory atmospheric gravity wave (AGW) activity in the stratosphere has been investigated in our previous paper by studying an inland Kumamoto earthquake (EQ). We are interested in whether the same phenomenon occurs or not before another major...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Methods of Complex Systems in Earthquake Physics including Precursory Phenomena II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,273 Views
19 Pages

On the Classical Coupling between Gravity and Electromagnetism

  • Maria Becker,
  • Adam Caprez and
  • Herman Batelaan

30 June 2015

Coupling between electromagnetism and gravity, manifested as the distorted Coulomb field of a charge distribution in a gravitational field, has never been observed. A physical system consisting of an electron in a charged shell provides a coupling t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
424 Views
19 Pages

13 September 2026

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation is a well-known and much-studied canonical equation for weakly nonlinear wave groups. In the context of wind-generated water waves, an additional wind forcing term can be added. It is asymptotically derived for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Wave Dynamics in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Professor Roger Grimshaw)
  • Review
  • Open Access
579 Views
12 Pages

27 April 2026

We analyze various gravity theories involving de Sitter, quadratic R2 and non-minimally coupled scalar backgrounds in the light of the application of the Dyson–Schwinger technique involving an exact background solution of the Green’s func...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue General Relativity, Modified Theories of Gravity and Their Applications in Astrophysics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
278 Citations
10,579 Views
56 Pages

28 July 2014

In this work, we review a plethora of modified theories of gravity with generalized curvature-matter couplings. The explicit nonminimal couplings, for instance, between an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature R and the Lagrangian density of mat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond Standard Gravity and Cosmology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,759 Views
29 Pages

28 October 2025

Modified gravity theories with a nonminimal coupling between curvature and matter offer a compelling alternative to dark energy and dark matter by introducing an explicit interaction between matter and curvature invariants. Two of the main consequenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 10th Anniversary of Universe: Standard Cosmological Models, and Modified Gravity and Cosmological Tensions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,919 Views
31 Pages

20 November 2024

Schwarzschild and Reissner–Nordstrøm black hole solutions are found in the context of a non-minimal matter–curvature coupling with Weyl connection both in vacuum and in the presence of a cosmological constant-like matter content. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,579 Views
20 Pages

8 September 2020

Constraints on the Yukawa-type corrections to Newton’s gravitational law and on the coupling constant of axionlike particles to nucleons obtained from different laboratory experiments are reviewed and compared. The constraints on non-Newtonian...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 17th Russian Gravitational Conference —International Conference on Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (RUSGRAV-17))
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Views
39 Pages

4 November 2026

Aging concrete seawalls are increasingly exposed to deterioration and sea-level-rise (SLR)-related hydraulic demands, yet the fracture response of pre-existing water-accessible cracks under combined coastal loading remains insufficiently understood....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical Modeling and Experimental Methods in Coastal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,686 Views
13 Pages

15 February 2022

We show that upon applying Palatini f(R), characterized by an αR2 term, within a scenario motivated by a temporal variation of strong coupling constant, then one obtains a quadratic kinetic energy. We do not drop this term, but rather study two...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modified Theories of Gravity and Cosmological Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,783 Views
29 Pages

Alternative Approach to Tilt-to-Length Coupling Estimation for Laser Ranging Interferometers in Future Gravity Missions

  • Zhizhao Wang,
  • Shuju Yang,
  • Fuling Jia,
  • Kaihang Wu and ,
  • Fangjie Liao,
  • Huizong Duan and
  • Hsien-Chi Yeh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 February 2024

Tilt-to-length coupling, a non-constant systematic error source caused by satellite attitude variations, has been observed in the laser ranging signals of the GRACE Follow-On mission. This error can be corrected by certain calibration maneuvers perfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Gravity Mission)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,124 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2025

The Tarim River Basin, a core region for economic development and ecological security in China’s inland arid areas, faces the pressing challenge of synergistically improving land use efficiency to resolve human-land conflicts under water resour...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Cover/Use Dynamics and Its Implications for Regional Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
439 Views
30 Pages

20 July 2026

This paper presents a two-dimensional magneto-photo-thermoelastic model for a fiber-reinforced anisotropic semiconductor half-space subjected to optical excitation and a variable gravity field. The formulation is developed within the framework of gen...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,616 Views
16 Pages

We investigate the cosmological implications of torsion–boundary gravity with explicit matter coupling in f(T,B,𝓣) gravity. The purpose is to examine if such couplings offer observationally viable extensions to standard cosmology. Focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,234 Views
8 Pages

The Laplace Transform of Quantum Gravity

  • Jorge Gamboa,
  • Fernando Méndez and
  • Natalia Tapia-Arellano

12 February 2022

Following analogies with relativistic point particles and Schild strings, we show that the Einstein gravity and its strong coupling regime (or the Planck mass going to zero) are related to each other through a Laplace transform. The Feynman propagato...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond Riemannian Geometry in Classical and Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,182 Views
24 Pages

The present study aims to propose a general framework of modeling rigid body potentials (RBPs) suitable for analyzing the orbit–attitude coupled motion of a spacecraft (S/C) near small celestial bodies, regardless of gravity estimation models....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Space Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,228 Views
12 Pages

9 April 2021

A heuristic description of the spin-rotation-gravity coupling is presented and the implications of the corresponding gravitomagnetic Stern–Gerlach force are briefly mentioned. It is shown, within the framework of linearized general relativity, that t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gravitomagnetism and Quantum Mechanics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,171 Views
18 Pages

The dark sector, composed of fields that are neutral under the standard model (SM) gauge group, can couple to the SM through the Higgs, hypercharge and neutrino portals, and pull the SM towards its scale by loop corrections. This instability, which i...

(This article belongs to the Collection A Trip across the Universe: Our Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,544 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2022

We discuss the polarization of gravitational radiation within the standard framework of linearized general relativity. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves provides the impetus to revisit the implications of the spin-rotation-grav...

(This article belongs to the Collection Gravitational Waves as a New Probe for Astronomy and Fundamental Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,919 Views
25 Pages

23 March 2023

Due to the construction technology of roller compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dams, there are many weak layers that have the potential to affect the seismic performance of dams. However, research on the seismic response and failure characteristics of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model and Simulation in Structural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,252 Views
19 Pages

Modeling and Characteristic Analysis of Combined Beam Tri-Stable Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System Considering Gravity

  • Xuhui Zhang,
  • Hengtao Xu,
  • Jianan Pan,
  • Xiaoyu Chen and ,
  • Fulin Zhu,
  • Yan Guo,
  • Hao Tian and
  • Yujun Cheng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 December 2022

The emergence of the vibration energy harvesting system makes it possible for wireless monitoring nodes in coal mines to realize self-power supply. In order to reveal the influence of gravity effect on the response characteristics of the combined bea...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
462 Views
32 Pages

18 July 2026

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy, smoothing wind-farm-level power fluctuations at the point of common coupling has become an important requirement for maintaining grid stability. However, the dynamic power-tracking mechanism of lar...

(This article belongs to the Section Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,272 Views
26 Pages

4 July 2025

This study investigates pre-seismic ionospheric anomalies preceding the 2023 Jishishan Ms6.2 earthquake using total electron content (TEC) data derived from BDS geostationary orbit (GEO) satellites. Multi-scale analysis integrating Butterworth filter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State of the Art of Geomagnetic/Electromagnetic Satellites: Science and Applications (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,675 Views
17 Pages

15 January 2026

This quantitative observational study with pre–post design aimed to examine joint-specific kinematic adaptations and the relationship between trunk stability and spatiotemporal gait parameters following intensive robotic rehabilitation. A total...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Wearable Device for Gait Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,614 Views
25 Pages

Magnetospheric–Ionospheric–Lithospheric Coupling Model. 1: Observations during the 5 August 2018 Bayan Earthquake

  • Mirko Piersanti,
  • Massimo Materassi,
  • Roberto Battiston,
  • Vincenzo Carbone and ,
  • Antonio Cicone,
  • Giulia D’Angelo,
  • Piero Diego and
  • Pietro Ubertini
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 October 2020

The short-term prediction of earthquakes is an essential issue connected with human life protection and related social and economic matters. Recent papers have provided some evidence of the link between the lithosphere, lower atmosphere, and ionosphe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space-Borne Earth Observation Data for Monitoring Natural and Anthropogenic Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
514 Views
26 Pages

Electromechanical Propagation of Rope Vibration to Grid-Side Low-Frequency Oscillations in Gravity Energy Storage Hoisting Systems

  • Xiaoyue Luo,
  • Qingquan Qiu,
  • Liwei Jing,
  • Yuxin Lin and ,
  • Li Dong,
  • Yanqiao Chen and
  • Liye Xiao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 May 2026

Gravity energy storage systems (GESS) have emerged as a promising long-duration energy storage technology capable of supporting large-scale renewable integration and enhancing grid resilience. However, the modeling framework for the hoisting electrom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Energy Storage Technologies)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,466 Views
6 Pages

It is well known that the universe is undergoing accelerated expansion during recent times and that it underwent a decelerated expansion in early times. The deceleration parameter, essentially the second derivative of the scale factor, can be used to...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd Electronic Conference on Universe)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,059 Views
13 Pages

On the Geomagnetic Field Line Resonance Eigenfrequency Variations during Seismic Event

  • Mirko Piersanti,
  • William Jerome Burger,
  • Vincenzo Carbone,
  • Roberto Battiston and ,
  • Roberto Iuppa and
  • Pietro Ubertini
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 July 2021

In this paper, we report high statistical evidence for a seismo–ionosphere effects occurring in conjunction with an earthquake. This finding supports a lithosphere-magnetosphere coupling mechanism producing a plasma density variation along the magnet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards Assessment and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
917 Views
10 Pages

24 November 2025

In this work, we discuss the conditions that allow the establishment of an equivalence between f(R,T)=R+λh(T) gravity models and General Relativity (GR) coupled to a modified matter sector. We do so by considering a D-dimensional spacetime and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometric Theories of Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,990 Views
22 Pages

7 April 2023

For sustainable economic development, it is extremely important to understand how digital finance and technological innovation are coupled and how the spatial coupling network is connected. Based on panel data collected from 31 Chinese provinces betw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,437 Views
16 Pages

On the Ionosphere–Atmosphere–Lithosphere Coupling During the 9 November 2022 Italian Earthquake

  • Mirko Piersanti,
  • Giulia D’Angelo,
  • Dario Recchiuti,
  • Fabio Lepreti and ,
  • Paola Cusano,
  • Enza De Lauro,
  • Vincenzo Carbone,
  • Pietro Ubertini and
  • Mariarosaria Falanga
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

In the last decades, the scientific community has been focused on searching earthquake signatures in the Earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. This work investigates an offshore Mw 5.5 earthquake that struck off the Marche region&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,359 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2024

This study evaluates the new urbanization (NU) quality and the ecological resilience (ER) of 33 districts and counties in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Guizhou from 2010 to 2020. For this purpose, we used a modified coupled coordination degree (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,467 Views
19 Pages

Microgravity Decoupling in Torsion Pendulum for Enhanced Micro-Newton Thrust Measurement

  • Linxiao Cong,
  • Jiabin Wang,
  • Jianfei Long,
  • Jianchao Mu and ,
  • Haoye Deng and
  • Congfeng Qiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 December 2023

To enhance the accuracy of micro-Newton thrust measurements via a torsion pendulum, addressing microgravity coupling effects caused by platform tilt and pendulum mass eccentricity is crucial. This study focuses on analyzing and minimizing these effec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technical Advances in Vibration Analysis: Modeling, Simulation and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,176 Views
11 Pages

13 October 2020

The equation of state of SU(3) Yang–Mills theory can be modelled by an effective Z3−symmetric potential depending on the temperature and on a complex scalar field ϕ. Allowing ϕ to be dynamical opens the way to the study of spatially local...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exact Solutions in Classical Field Theory: Solitons, Black Holes and Boson Stars)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,575 Views
23 Pages

Atmospheric Impact of Typhoon Hagibis: A Multi-Layer Investigation of Stratospheric and Ionospheric Responses

  • Kousik Nanda,
  • Debrupa Mondal,
  • Sudipta Sasmal,
  • Yasuhide Hobara and ,
  • Ajeet K. Maurya,
  • Masashi Hayakawa,
  • Stelios M. Potirakis and
  • Abhirup Datta
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 February 2026

We investigate the multi-layer atmospheric impacts of Typhoon Hagibis (2019), which formed on 6 October, tracked across 12–35° N and 135–155° E, and made landfall on 12 October over the Izu Peninsula, central Honshu, Japan. We pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Upper Atmosphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,447 Views
14 Pages

A recent study the detection of coseismic ionospheric disturbances or ionoquakes less than 400 s from the earthquake’s onset. The study also associates these rapid ionoquakes with the seismo-atmosphere–ionosphere (SAI) coupling mechanism...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Waves and Variability in Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,728 Views
29 Pages

Lithosphere–Atmosphere–Ionosphere Coupling Effects Based on Multiparameter Precursor Observations for February–March 2021 Earthquakes (M~7) in the Offshore of Tohoku Area of Japan

  • Masashi Hayakawa,
  • Jun Izutsu,
  • Alexander Schekotov,
  • Shih-Sian Yang and ,
  • Maria Solovieva and
  • Ekaterina Budilova
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 November 2021

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the lithosphere–atmosphere–ionosphere coupling (LAIC) effects with the use of multiparameter precursor observations for two successive Japanese earthquakes (EQs) (with a magnitude of around 7) in February and M...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Hazards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,745 Views
17 Pages

Haiti Earthquake (Mw 7.2): Magnetospheric–Ionospheric–Lithospheric Coupling during and after the Main Shock on 14 August 2021

  • Giulia D’Angelo,
  • Mirko Piersanti,
  • Roberto Battiston,
  • Igor Bertello and ,
  • Vincenzo Carbone,
  • Antonio Cicone,
  • Piero Diego,
  • Emanuele Papini,
  • Alexandra Parmentier and
  • Pietro Ubertini
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

25 October 2022

In the last few decades, the efforts of the scientific community to search earthquake signatures in the atmospheric, ionospheric and magnetospheric media have grown rapidly. The increasing amount of good quality data from both ground stations and sat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earthquake Ground Motion Observation and Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,868 Views
26 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Variation and Influencing Factors of the Coupling Coordination Degree of Production-Living-Ecological Space in China

  • Xinghua Cui,
  • Ning Xu,
  • Wanxu Chen,
  • Guanzheng Wang and ,
  • Jiale Liang,
  • Sipei Pan and
  • Binqiao Duan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Territorial space is a multi-functional complex. The coordinated production-living-ecological space (PLES) effectively coordinates the man-land relationship, promotes regional sustainable development, and maximizes territorial space. How to build a h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impacts of Human Activities and Climate Change on Landscape)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,825 Views
10 Pages

13 March 2018

We first calculate the heat capacities of the nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) black hole for fixed mass and electric charge, and the electric capacitances for fixed mass and entropy. Then, we study the properties of the Ruppeiner thermodynamic geomet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,120 Views
33 Pages

Pre-Seismic Irregularities during the 2020 Samos (Greece) Earthquake (M = 6.9) as Investigated from Multi-Parameter Approach by Ground and Space-Based Techniques

  • Sudipta Sasmal,
  • Swati Chowdhury,
  • Subrata Kundu,
  • Dimitrios Z. Politis and ,
  • Stelios M. Potirakis,
  • Georgios Balasis,
  • Masashi Hayakawa and
  • Sandip K. Chakrabarti
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2021

We present a comprehensive analysis of pre-seismic anomalies as computed from the ground and space-based techniques during the recent Samos earthquake in Greece on 30 October 2020, with a magnitude M = 6.9. We proceed with a multi-parametric approach...

(This article belongs to the Section Upper Atmosphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,756 Views
32 Pages

Case Study of a Mesospheric Temperature Inversion over Maïdo Observatory through a Multi-Instrumental Observation

  • Fabrice Chane Ming,
  • Alain Hauchecorne,
  • Christophe Bellisario,
  • Pierre Simoneau and ,
  • Philippe Keckhut,
  • Samuel Trémoulu,
  • Constantino Listowski,
  • Gwenaël Berthet,
  • Fabrice Jégou and
  • Alexis Le Pichon
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

12 April 2023

The dynamic vertical coupling in the middle and lower thermosphere (MLT) is documented over the Maïdo observatory at La Réunion island (21°S, 55°E). The investigation uses data obtained in the framework of the Atmospheric dynamics...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infrasound, Acoustic-Gravity Waves, and Atmospheric Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,263 Views
28 Pages

28 March 2026

This study presents a comprehensive multi-parameter analysis of seismo-ionospheric responses to the Mw 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on 28 March 2025, using GNSS-based Total Electron Content (TEC) data, seismic b-value trends, and acoustic gravity wave (AGW...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in GNSS Remote Sensing for Ionosphere Observation)

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