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Aspects of graviton detection: graviton emission and absorption by atomic hydrogen

Stephen Boughn1 and Tony Rothman2

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Graviton absorption cross sections and emission rates for hydrogen are calculated by both semi-classical and field theoretic methods. We point out several mistakes in the literature concerning spontaneous emission of gravitons and related phenomena, some of which are due to a subtle issue concerning gauge invariance of the linearized interaction Hamiltonian.


PACS

03.65.Sq Semiclassical theories and applications

04.30.Db Wave generation and sources

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

04.60.-m Quantum gravity

MSC

81Q20 Semiclassical techniques including WKB and Maslov methods

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 20 (21 October 2006)

Received 9 May 2006, in final form 27 July 2006

Published 20 September 2006



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