Stimulated emission of relic gravitons and their super-Poissonian statistics
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Publication:5229366
DOI10.1142/S0217732319501852zbMATH Open1418.83014arXiv1903.03796WikidataQ127793888 ScholiaQ127793888MaRDI QIDQ5229366FDOQ5229366
Publication date: 15 August 2019
Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The degree of second-order coherence of the relic gravitons produced from the vacuum is super-Poissonian and larger than in the case of a chaotic source characterized by a Bose-Einstein distribution. If the initial state does not minimize the tensor Hamiltonian and has a dispersion smaller than its averaged multiplicity, the overall statistics is by definition sub-Poissonian. Depending on the nature of the sub-Poissonian initial state, the final degree of second-order coherence of the quanta produced by stimulated emission may diminish (possibly even below the characteristic value of a chaotic source) but it always remains larger than one (i.e. super-Poissonian). When the initial statistics is Poissonian (like in the case of a coherent state or for a mixed state weighted by a Poisson distribution) the degree of second-order coherence of the produced gravitons is still super-Poissonian. Even though the quantum origin of the relic gravitons inside the Hubble radius can be effectively disambiguated by looking at the corresponding Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlations, the final distributions caused by different initial states maintain their super-Poissonian character which cannot be altered.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03796
Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Gravitational waves (83C35)
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