Gravitons in a Box
arXiv:2104.12793 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.066019
Abstract
Gravity and matter are universally coupled, and this unique universality provides us with an intriguing way to quantifying quantum aspects of space-time in terms of the number of gravitons within a given box. In particular, we will provide a limit on the number of gravitons if we trace out the matter degrees of freedom. We will obtain the universal bound on the number of gravitons, which would be given by . Since the number of gravitons also signify the number of bosonic states they occupy, the number of gravitons will place an indirect constraint on the gravitational entropy of the system. We will show that it saturates Bekenstein bound on the gravitational Area-law of entropy. We will also find that our conclusion is quite robust against the initial state of the matter degrees of freedom. Based on these observations, we will ascertain that the gravitons permeating in the observable Universe always .
Accepted for publication in PRD; 5 pages
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