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Advances in gravitational wave detection offer a new approach to probing the very early history of the Universe and the corresponding fundamental physics models. They can provide crucial insights into topics such as symmetry breaking, gravitational theories, and the origin of dark matter. This presentation will briefly introduce and summarize the primary sources of gravitational waves, including processes like primordial scalar perturbations, topological defects, preheating, and first-order phase transitions. These sources offer probes or constraints on fundamental physics and cosmic evolution through various means, such as their gravitational wave energy spectrum, anisotropy, and the induced curvature perturbations and dark matter associated with them.
