Secondary graviton spectra, second-order correlations and Bose–Einstein enhancement

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/1/015009MaRDI QIDQ4911279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Massimo Giovannini

Publication date 14 March 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3991

zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einsteinphonontensor-to-scalar ratiothermal wavelengthgraviton spectraquantum mixture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: Primary graviton spectra, produced via stimulated emission from an initial Bose-Einstein distribution, are enhanced for typical scales larger than the redshifted thermal wavelength. A mixed state of phonons induces a secondary graviton spectrum which is hereunder computed in terms of three parameters (i.e. the number of phonon species, the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the thermal wavelengths of the mixture). The primary and secondary graviton spectra are shown to be sensitive, respectively, to the first-order and second-order correlation properties of the initial quantum mixture so that the semiclassical theory is argued to be generally inadequate in this context. For particular values of the parameters the secondary contribution may turn out to be comparable with the primary spectrum over large-scales.

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