http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04929
When gravity is quantized, there inevitably exist quantum gravitational vacuum fluctuations which induce quadrupole moments in gravitationally polarizable objects and produce a quantum correction to the classical Newtonian interaction between them. Here, based upon linearized quantum gravity and the leading-order perturbation theory, we study, from a quantum field-theoretic prospect, this quantum correction between a pair of gravitationally polarizable objects treated as two-level harmonic oscillators. We find that the interaction potential behaves like $r^{-11}$ in the retarded regime and $r^{-10}$ in the near regime. Our result agrees with what was recently obtained in a different approach to the issue under assumption that the size of the objects is much smaller than their separation which is not required here. Our study seems to indicate that linearized quantum gravity is robust in dealing with quantum gravitational effects at low energies.
P. Wu, J. Hu and H. Yu
Tue, 19 Jul 16
60/68
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