2006/05/31 by Stephen Boughn, Tony Rothman · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #astro-ph #gr-qc #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/20/006
published as Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) 5839-5852 · 19 pages, no figures
openalex publication_date 2006/09/20 · arxiv created 2006/09/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
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.