Interferometric tests of Planckian quantum geometry models

Kwon, Ohkyung; Hogan, Craig J.

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/33/10/105004

Title: Interferometric tests of Planckian quantum geometry models

Journal Article · Tue Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Classical and Quantum Gravity

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/10/105004· OSTI ID:1253179

^[1]; Hogan, Craig J. ^[2]

Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

The effect of Planck scale quantum geometrical effects on measurements with interferometers is estimated with standard physics, and with a variety of proposed extensions. It is shown that effects are negligible in standard field theory with canonically quantized gravity. Statistical noise levels are estimated in a variety of proposals for nonstandard metric fluctuations, and these alternatives are constrained using upper bounds on stochastic metric fluctuations from LIGO. Idealized models of several interferometer system architectures are used to predict signal noise spectra in a quantum geometry that cannot be described by a fluctuating metric, in which position noise arises from holographic bounds on directional information. Lastly, predictions in this case are shown to be close to current and projected experimental bounds.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1253179

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1248064

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-15-006-A; arXiv:1410.8197; 1325088

Journal Information:: Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 33, Issue 10; ISSN 0264-9381

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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