Gravitationally Induced Decoherence of Optical Entanglement

2006/09/18 by Timothy C. Ralph, T. C. Ralph, G. J. Milburn +5 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0609139

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Abstract

We propose an experiment in which an entangled pair of optical pulses are propagated through non-uniform gravitational fields. A field operator calculation of this situation predicts decoherence of the optical entanglement under experimentally realistic conditions.

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