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Soham Sen

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arXiv2024

Quantum gravity signatures in gravitational wave detectors placed inside a harmonic trap potential

In this work, we consider a general gravitational wave detector of gravitational wave interacting with an incoming gravitational wave carrying plus polarization only placed inside a harmonic trap. This model can be well acquainted with the description of a resonant detector of gravitational wave as well. The well known detector-gravitational wave interaction scenario uses the method of a semi classical approach where the detector is treated quantum mechanically but the gravitational wave is considered at a classical level. In our analysis, we use a discrete mode decomposition of the gravitational wave perturbation which results in a Hamiltonian involving the position and momentum operators corresponding to the gravitational wave and the harmonic oscillator. We have then calculated the transition probability for the harmonic oscillator-gravitational wave tensor product state for going from an initial state to some unknown final state. Using the energy flux relation of the gravitational waves, we observe that if we consider the total energy as a combination of the number of gravitons in the initial state of the detector then the transition probability for the resonant absorption case scenario takes the analytical form which is exactly similar to the semi-classical absorption case. In case of the emission scenario, we observe a spontaneous emission of a single graviton which was completely absent in the semi-classical analouge of this model. This therefore gives a direct signature of linearized quantum gravity.

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arXiv2024

Signatures of quantum geometry from exponential corrections to the black hole entropy

It has been recently shown in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) 041302] that microstate counting carried out for quantum states residing on the horizon of a black hole leads to a correction of the form $\exp(-A/4l_p^2)$ in the Bekenstein-Hawking form of the black hole entropy. In this paper, we develop a novel approach to obtain the possible form of the spacetime geometry from the entropy of the black hole for a given horizon radius. The uniqueness of this solution for a given energy-momentum tensor has also been discussed. Remarkably, the black hole geometry reconstructed has striking similarities to that of noncommutative-inspired Schwarzschild black holes [Phys. Lett. B 632 (2006) 547]. We also obtain the matter density functions using Einstein field equations for the geometries we reconstruct from the thermodynamics of black holes. These also have similarities to that of the matter density function of a noncommutative-inspired Schwarzschild black hole. The conformal structure of the metric is briefly discussed and the Penrose-Carter diagram is drawn. We then compute the Komar energy and the Smarr formula for the effective black hole geometry and compare it with that of the noncommutative-inspired Schwarzschild black hole. We also discuss some astrophysical implications of the solutions. Finally, we propose a set of quantum Einstein vacuum field equations, as a solution of which we obtain one of the spacetime solutions obtained in this work. We then show a direct connection between the quantum Einstein vacuum field equations and the first law of black hole thermodynamics.

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arXiv2024

Resonant detectors of gravitational wave in the linear and quadratic generalized uncertainty principle framework

In this work, we consider a resonant bar detector of gravitational wave in the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) framework with linear and quadratic momentum uncertainties. The phonon modes in these detectors vibrate due to the interaction with the incoming gravitational wave. In this uncertainty principle framework, we calculate the resonant frequencies and transition rates induced by the incoming gravitational waves on these detectors. We observe that the energy eigenstates and the eigenvalues get modified by the GUP parameters. We also observe non-vanishing transition probabilities between two adjacent energy levels due to the existence of the linear order momentum correction in the generalized uncertainty relation which was not present in the quadratic GUP analysis [http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abac45, Class. Quantum Grav. 37 (2020) 195006]. We finally obtain bounds on the dimensionless GUP parameters using the form of the transition rates obtained during this analysis.

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arXiv2024

Bose-Einstein condensate as a quantum gravity probe; "Erste Abhandlung"

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with a gravitational wave for the case when the gravitational fluctuations are quantized in order to incorporate quantum gravity effects into the theory. We observe that the solution of the time-dependent part of the pseudo-Goldstone boson has infusions from the noise induced by gravitons and the corresponding differential equation of motion is Langevin-like. Using this result, we obtain the quantum gravity modified Fisher information which has been termed as the quantum gravitational Fisher information (QGFI). The inverse square root of the stochastic average of the QGFI gives the minimum uncertainty in the measurement of the gravitational wave amplitude. The minimum uncertainty does not go to infinity as the measurement time approaches zero in a quantum gravity setup rather it has a measurable finite value for gravitons with high squeezing. Finally, we observe the effect of decoherence due to interacting phonon modes in the QGFI and observe a less obvious decoherence effect for higher squeezing of the initial graviton.

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arXiv2024

Uncertainty principle from the noise of gravitons

The effect of the noise induced by gravitons in the case of a freely falling particle from the viewpoint of an external observer has been recently calculated in \href{https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.066024}{Phys. Rev. D 107 (2023) 066024}. There the authors have calculated the quantum gravity modified Newton's law of free fall where the spacetime has been considered to be weakly curved. In our work, we extend this work by calculating the variance in the velocity and eventually the momentum of the freely falling massive particle. From this simple calculation, we observe that the product of the standard deviation in the position with that of the standard deviation in momentum picks up a higher order correction which is proportional to the square of the standard deviation in momentum. We also find out that in the Planck limit (both Planck length and Planck mass), this uncertainty product gives the well-known form of the generalized uncertainty principle. We then calculate a similar uncertainty product when the graviton is in a squeezed state, and eventually, we get back the same uncertainty product. Finally, we extend our analysis for the gravitons being in a thermal state and obtain a temperature-dependent uncertainty product. If one replaces this temperature with the Planck temperature and the mass of the particle by the Planck mass, the usual uncertainty product appears once again. We also obtain an upper bound of the uncertainty product thereby giving a range of the product of the variances in position and momentum.

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arXiv2023

Lewis and Berry phases for a gravitational wave interacting with a quantum harmonic oscillator

In this work, we consider a gravitational wave interacting with a quantum harmonic oscillator in the transverse-traceless gauge. We take the gravitational wave to be carrying the signatures of both plus and cross polarization at first. We then try to obtain a suitable form of the Lewis invariant using the most general form possible while considering only quadratic order contributions from both position and momentum variables. In order to progress further, we then drop the cross terms obtaining a separable Hamiltonian in terms of the first and the second spatial coordinates. We then obtain two Lewis invariants corresponding to each separable parts of the entire Hamiltonian of the system. Using both Lewis invariants, one can obtain two Ermakov-Pinney equations, from which we finally obtain the corresponding Lewis phase and eventually the Berry phase for the entire system. Finally, we obtain some explicit expressions of the Berry phase for a plane polarized gravitational wave with different choices of the harmonic oscillator frequency.

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arXiv2023

Horizon brightened accelerated radiation in the background of braneworld black holes

The concept of horizon brightened acceleration radiation (HBAR) has brought to us a distinct mechanism of particle production in curved spacetime. In this manuscript we examine the HBAR phenomena for a braneworld black hole (BBH) which emerges as an effective theory in our $(3+1)$ dimensional universe due to the higher dimensional gravitational effects. Despite being somewhat similar to the Reissner-Nordstr$\ddot{\rm o}$m solution in general relativity, the BBH is unique with respect to its charge term which is rather the tidal charge. In this background, we study the transition probability of the atom due to the atom-field interaction and the associated HBAR entropy. Both the quantities acquire modifications over the standard Schwarzschild results and turn out to be the function of the tidal charge. This modifications appear solely due to the bulk gravitational effects as induced on the 3-brane. Studying the Wien's displacement, we observe an important feature that the wavelengths of HBAR corresponding to the Schwarzschild and the BBH, deviate from each other depending on their masses. This deviation is found to be more pronounced for the mass values slightly greater or comparable to the Planck mass.

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arXiv2023

Minimal length scale correction in the noise of gravitons

In this paper we have considered a quantized and linearly polarized gravitational wave interacting with a gravitational wave detector (interferometer detector) in the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) framework. Following the analysis in Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (2021) 081602 (https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.081602), we consider a quantized gravitational wave interacting with a gravitational wave detector (LIGO/VIRGO etc.) using a path integral approach. Although the incoming gravitational wave was quantized, no Planck-scale quantization effects were considered for the detector in earlier literatures. In our work, we consider a modified Heisenberg uncertainty relation with a quadratic order correction in the momentum variable between the two phase space coordinates of the detector. Using a path integral approach, we have obtained a stochastic equation involving the separation between two point-like objects. It is observed that random fluctuations (noises) and the correction terms due to the generalized uncertainty relation plays a crucial role in dictating such trajectories. Finally, we observe that the solution to the stochastic equation leads to time dependent standard deviation due to the GUP insertion, and for a primordial gravitational wave (where the initial state is a squeezed state) both the noise effect and the GUP effects exponentially enhance which may be possible to detect in future generation of gravitational wave detectors. We have also given a plot of the dimensionless standard deviation with time depicting that the GUP effect will carry a distinct signature which may be detectable in the future space based gravitational wave observatories.

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arXiv2023

Near horizon approximation and beyond for a two-level atom falling into a Kerr-Newman black hole

In this work we investigate the phenomena of acceleration radiation for a two-level atom falling into the event horizon of a Kerr-Newman black hole. In https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.065006 (Phys. Rev. D 104 (2021) 065006), it has been shown that conformal quantum mechanics has a connection to the generated Planck-like spectrum due to acceleration radiation. In this particular aspect, the near horizon approximation played a significant role. In https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.025004 (Phys. Rev. D 106 (2022) 025004), we have used the beyond near horizon approximation to show that the excitation probability attains a Planck-like spectrum irrespective of the non-existence of an underlying conformal symmetry for a general class of static spherically symmetric black holes. In our analysis we have gone beyond the near horizon approximation for the rotating and charged case and even without the consideration of the conformal symmetry we observe a similar Planck-like spectrum. However, the coefficient of the spectrum is significantly different from the near horizon case. We have then considered a different scenario where a two-level atom emits multiple photons while freely falling into the event horizon of the Kerr-Newman black hole. It is observed that the Planck factor in the excitation probability is significantly small than that of the case of single-photon emission (for large number of simultaneously emitted photons from the two-level atom). Finally, we have computed the von-Neumann entropy which is also known as the horizon brightened acceleration radiation entropy or the HBAR entropy. We have carried out our analysis for a scalar field only to see the effect of the charge and rotation of the black hole in this particular scenario.

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arXiv2023

Entanglement degradation as a tool to detect signatures of quantum gravity

We investigate entanglement degradation in the vicinity of a quantum corrected black hole. We consider a biprtite system (Alice-Rob) with Alice freely falling (radially) into the event horizon of a quantum corrected black hole and Rob being in the vicinity of the event horizon of the black hole. We consider a maximally entangled state (in the Fock basis) and start with the basic assumption that Rob is an uniformly accelerated observer. We then give a pedagogical analysis of the relation involving the Minkowski vaccum state and Rindler number states. Following the analogy given in https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.064006 {Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 064006}, we establish the relation between the Hartle-Hawking vacuum state and Boulware and Anti-Bouware number states from the Minkowski-Rindler relation. We then write down the quantum corrected black hole metric by making use of the near horizon approximation in an appropriate form. Next, we obtain the analytical forms of logarithmic negativity and mutual information and plot as a function of Rob's distance from the $r=0$ point. We observe that the entanglement degradation slows down due to the incorporation of quantum gravity corrections in the Schwarzschild black hole. This observation may lead to identification of quantum gravity signatures in future generation of advanced observational scenarios. We can also interpret this effect as a noisy quantum channel with an operator sum representation of a completely positive and trace preserving (CPTP) map. We then finally obtain the entanglement fidelity using this operator sum representation.

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arXiv2023

Interference and reflection from the event horizon of a quantum corrected black hole

In this work, we calculate the Hawking temperature for a quantum corrected black hole geometry using the $reflection$ $from$ $the$ $horizon$ method. We observe that quantum gravity corrections indeed show up in the Hawking temperature formula of the quantum corrected black hole. It is important to notice that the quantum gravity corrections arise in the Hawking temperature formula only due to the underlying quantum gravity corrections to the lapse function of the black hole metric rather than the semi-classical methods used in the analysis. We also substantiate our result by computing the Hawking temperature using the tunneling approach.

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arXiv2023

Breaking of universal nature of central charge criticality in $AdS$ black holes in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

In this paper, we have studied the thermodynamics of Gauss-Bonnet black holes in D-dimensional $AdS$ spacetime. Here, the cosmological constant ($Λ$), Newton's gravitational constant ($G$) and the Gauss-Bonnet parameter ($α$) are varied in the bulk, and a mixed first law is rewritten considering central charge ($C$) (of dual boundary conformal theory) and its conjugate variable utilising the gauge-gravity duality. A novel universal nature of central charge near the critical point of black hole phase transition in Einstein's gravity has been observed in \cite{mann1}. We observe that this universal nature breaks when such phase transition is considered for black holes in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Apart from this, treating the Gauss-Bonnet parameter as a thermodynamic variable as suggested in \cite{kastori} in light of the consistency between first law and the Smarr relation leads to modified thermodynamic volume (conjugate to variable cosmological constant), adding to a new understanding of the Van der Waals gas like behaviour of the black holes in higher dimensional and higher curvature gravity theories. Our analysis considers a general $D$ dimensional background. We have then imposed a greater focus in the analysis of the phase structure of the five dimensional Gauss-Bonnet spacetime. Our analysis also shows that the general universal nature of the critical value of the central charge (which was present in four dimensional $AdS$ spacetime), breaks down in case of five dimensional $AdS$ spacetime even in the absence of Gauss-Bonnet gravity. This finding indicates the universal nature of the central charge may be a special feature of the four dimensional $AdS$ spacetime only.

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arXiv2023

Virtual transitions in an atom-mirror system in the presence of two scalar photons

We examine the virtual transition of an atom-mirror system with the simultaneous emission of two scalar photons, where the atom and the mirror admit a relative acceleration between them. For the single photon emission, literature (Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 071301) dictates that the transition probabilities of two individual systems, such as an atom accelerating with respect to the mirror and its reverse, turn out to be equivalent under the exchange of the frequencies of atom and the field. Addressing the observational merit of such excitation process, a detectable probability ($P \sim 10^{-2}$) is also reported in the above literature. In the present manuscript our finding dictates that the simultaneous emission of dual photon instead of one, destroys the equivalence between the transition probabilities as reported in the above literature.

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arXiv2022

Path integral action for a resonant detector of gravitational waves in the generalized uncertainty principle framework

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle gets modified by the introduction of an observer independent minimal length. In this work we have considered the resonant gravitational wave detector in the modified uncertainty principle framework where we have used the position momentum uncertainty relation with a quadratic order correction only. We have then used the path integral approach to calculate an action for the bar detector in presence of a gravitational wave and then derived the Lagrangian of the system leading to the equation of motion for the configuration-space position coordinate in one dimension. We then find a perturbative solution for the coordinate of the detector for a circularly polarized gravitational wave leading to a classical solution of the same for given initial conditions. Using this classical form of the coordinate of the detector, we finally obtain the classical form of the on-shell action describing the harmonic oscillator-gravitational wave system. Finally, we have obtained the free particle propagator containing the quantum fluctuation term considering gravitational wave interaction.

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arXiv2022

Near horizon aspects (and beyond) of acceleration radiation of an atom falling into a large class of static spherically symmetric black hole geometries

The near horizon aspects (and beyond) of a black hole metric, which belongs to a large class of static spherically symmetric black holes, are considered here. It has been realized recently that an atom falling into a black hole leads to the generation of acceleration radiation through virtual transitions. In recent studies, it has been argued that this acceleration radiation can be understood from the near horizon physics of the black hole. The near horizon approximation leads to conformal symmetry in the problem. We go beyond the near horizon approximation in our analysis. This breaks the conformal symmetry associated with the near horizon physics of the black hole geometry. We observe that even without the consideration of the conformal symmetry, the modified equivalence relation holds. Further, our analysis reveals that the probability of virtual transition retains its Planck like form with the amplitude getting modified due to the beyond near horizon approximation. For the next part of our analysis, we have observed the horizon brightened acceleration radiation entropy (HBAR) for a Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger (GHS) black hole. We observe that the HBAR entropy misses out on quantum gravity like corrections while considering the conformal case. However, such corrections emerge when the conformal symmetry gets broken in the beyond near horizon analysis.

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arXiv2022

Phase transition structure and breaking of universal nature of central charge criticality in a Born-Infeld $AdS$ black hole

In this paper we have considered the thermodynamics of a Born-Infeld $AdS$ black hole using inputs from the dual boundary field theory. Here, we have varied the cosmological constant $Λ$ and the Newton's gravitational constant $G$ along with the Born-Infeld parameter $b$ in the bulk. A novel universal critical behaviour of the central charge (occurring in the boundary conformal field theory) in extended black hole thermodynamics for charged black holes has been recently observed \cite{mann1}, and we have extended this study to Born-Infeld $AdS$ black holes. The Born-Infeld parameter has the dimension of inverse length, therefore, when considered in the first law of thermodynamics of the bulk in the mixed form which includes the central charge of the boundary conformal field theory, it modifies the thermodynamic volume and the chemical potential (which are conjugate to pressure and central charge respectively). We observe that due to this inclusion of the Born-Infeld non-linearity in this analysis, the universal nature of the critical value of the central charge observed in \cite{mann1} breaks down. We also observe an interesting behaviour of the free energy of the black hole with Hawking temperature due to the variations in both the central charge and the Born-Infeld parameter. It is also observed in our analysis that for a sufficiently small value of the Born-Infeld parameter (small value of this parameter has more prominent non-linear effects), there exists a critical value of the temperature below which no black hole can exist.

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arXiv2022

Equivalence principle and HBAR entropy of an atom falling into a quantum corrected black hole

In this work, we have investigated the phenomenon of acceleration radiation exhibited by an atom falling into a quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole. We observe that the excitation-probability of the atom with simultaneous emission of a photon satisfies the equivalence principle when we compare it to the excitation probability of a mirror accelerating with respect to an atom. We also demonstrate the validity of the equivalence principle for a generic black hole geometry. Then we calculate the horizon brightened acceleration radiation (HBAR) entropy for this quantum corrected black hole geometry. We observed that the HBAR entropy has the form identical to that of Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy along with universal quantum gravity corrections.

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arXiv2022

Probing the generalized uncertainty principle through quantum noises in optomechanical systems

In this work we have considered a simple mechanical oscillator interacting with a single mode optical field inside a cavity in the generalized uncertainty principle framework (GUP). Our aim is to calculate the modified noise spectrum and observe the effects of the GUP. The commutation relation that we have considered has an extra linear order momentum term along with a quadratic order term. Confronting our theoretical results with the observational results, we observe that we get a much tighter bound on the GUP parameters from the noise spectrum using the values of the system parameters from different experiments.

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