Effect of quantum and thermal jitter on the feasibility of Bekenstein's proposed experiment to search for Planck-scale signals

被引：1

作者：

Maclay, G. Jordan ^{[1
]}

Wadood, S. A. ^{[2
,3
]}

Black, Eric D. ^{[4
]}

Milonni, Peter W. ^{[5
,6
]}

机构：

[1] Quantum Fields LLC, 147 Hunt Club Dr, St Charles, IL 60174 USA

[2] Univ Rochester, Inst Opt, Rochester, NY 14627 USA

[3] Univ Rochester, Ctr Coherence & Quantum Opt, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY 14627 USA

[4] CALTECH, Dept Phys, MC 264-33, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[5] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Theoret Div, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[6] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2019年 / 99卷 / 12期

关键词：

ENERGY; NOISE;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.99.124053

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

A proposed experiment to test whether space is discretized [J. D. Bekenstein, Phys. Rev. D 86, 124040 (2012); Found. Phys. 44, 452 (2014)] is based on the supposed impossibility of an incident photon causing a displacement of a transparent block by less than the Planck length. An analysis of the quantum and thermal jitter of the block shows that it greatly diminishes the possibility that the experiment could reveal Planck-scale signals.

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