DECOHERENCE AND GRAVITATIONAL BACKGROUDS

2001/11/29 by Serge Reynaud, Brahim Lamine, Astrid Lambrecht +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #astro-ph #gr-qc #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x0201042x

published as Int.J.Mod.Phys. A17 (2002) 1003-1012 · 10 pages

arxiv created 2001/11/29 · openalex publication_date 2002/03/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We study the decoherence process associated with the scattering of stochastic gravitational waves. We discuss the case of macroscopic systems, such as the planetary motion of the Moon around the Earth, for which gravitational scattering is found to dominate decoherence though it has a negligible influence on damping. This contrast is due to the very high effective temperature of the background of gravitational waves in our galactic environment.

Citations

• Manipulating quantum entanglement with atoms and photons in a cavity
• Gravitational decoherence of planetary motions
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