Gravity of two photon decay and its quantum coherence

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC5377MaRDI QIDQ5066849zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kris MacKewicz, Craig J. Hogan

Publication date 30 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03264

zbMATH Keywords

general relativitygravitational shocklinearized gravityquantum coherence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave front sets in context of PDEs (35A18) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Equations linearized about a deformed state (small deformations superposed on large) (74B15) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Coherent states (81R30) Particle decays (81U90) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: A linear analytical solution is derived for the gravitational shock wave produced by a particle of mass $M$ that decays into a pair of null particles. The resulting space-time is shown to be unperturbed and isotropic, except for a discontinuous perturbation on a spherical null shell. Formulae are derived for the perturbation as a function of polar angle, as measured by an observer at the origin observing clocks on a sphere at distance $R$. The effect of the shock is interpreted physically as an instantaneous displacement in time and velocity when the shock passes the clocks. The time displacement is shown to be anisotropic, dominated by a quadrupole harmonic aligned with the particle-decay axis, with a magnitude $deltaausimGM/c^3$, independent of $R$. The velocity displacement is isotropic. The solution is used to derive the gravitational effect of a quantum state with a superposition of a large number of randomly oriented, statistically isotropic particle decays. This approach is shown to provide a well-controlled approximation to estimate the magnitude of gravitational fluctuations in systems composed of null point particles up to the Planck energy in a causal diamond of duration $au=2R/c$, as well as quantum-gravitational fluctuations of black holes and cosmological horizons. Coherent large-angle quantum distortions of macroscopic geometry from fluctuations up to the Planck scale are shown to grow linearly with the duration, with a variance $langledeltaa{u}^{2}anglesimau{t}_P$ much larger than that produced in models without causal quantum coherence.

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