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Yu Miyauchi

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The Challenge of Detecting Quantum Nature of Gravitational Waves

We investigate whether squeezing can provide an observable signature of quantum gravitational waves. Because a realistic detector couples only to a particular wave-packet mode, squeezing in global source modes need not remain observable. We show that inflationary two-mode squeezing reduces to an unsqueezed thermal state in the accessible one-mode sector, phase incoherence washes out squeezing in stochastic backgrounds, and the limited coverage of the solid angle of detectors strongly suppresses squeezing from isolated sources. We then show that source squeezing is not essential, {\it i.e.}, a quantized gravitational wave can generate a positive squeezing witness if the detector state is initially prepared in a squeezed state, whereas a classical external gravitational field cannot, producing only a displacement. However, the resulting signal is bounded by the extremely small graviton--detector coupling. Thus, detector squeezing can remove the need for squeezed incident waves, but not the suppression caused by weak gravitational interaction.

hep-ph

Black hole thermodynamics and KK photon quantum corrections in 2D effective dilaton gravity

We study black hole thermodynamics using a two-dimensional effective theory obtained by dimensional reduction of four-dimensional Einstein--Maxwell theory. For spherically symmetric charged black holes, the resulting dilaton gravity has a nonlinear potential that reproduces the semiclassical phase structure of four-dimensional AdS black holes, including the Hawking--Page transition and the small/large Reissner--Nordstr\"{o}m--AdS black hole transition. This shows that the two-dimensional theory before taking the near-horizon and near-extremal limits captures non-extremal thermodynamics beyond the Jackiw--Teitelboim gravity regime. We also include electromagnetic Kaluza--Klein modes on the internal sphere and integrate them out to derive the one-loop effective dilaton gravity. At leading order in the derivative expansion, these corrections appear as constant shifts in the black hole entropy and in the effective charge parameter of the dilaton potential. Therefore, the semiclassical phase structure is not qualitatively modified within this leading local approximation.

hep-th

The Possibility of Formation of Compact Boson Stars via Cosmological Evolution of a Background Scalar Field

Boson stars, hypothetical astrophysical objects bound by the self-gravity of a scalar field, have been widely studied as a type of exotic compact object that is horizonless and provides a testing ground for physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, many previous works have demonstrated methods for distinguishing compact boson stars from black holes in general relativity through gravitational wave observations. However, the formation scenario of compact boson stars within the age of the universe remains unclear. In this paper, we explore a possible scenario for the formation of compact boson stars. The model we consider requires two coupled scalar fields: a complex scalar field that forms a boson star and a spatially homogeneous background field, as formation of a compact boson star cannot be achieved in a single filed model. Using the adiabatic approximation, we show that non-relativistic boson clouds can evolve into compact boson stars through the cosmological time-evolution of the background field. In our model the background field evolves to increase the effective mass of the scalar field, and as a result compact boson stars can form within the cosmological timescale, if the variation of the background field is as large as the Planck scale. However, further investigation is required because the required initial states are not the configurations that can be described by the well-studied Schr\"odinger-Poisson system.

gr-qc