Gravitational Decoherence in Deep Space Experiments
Abstract
Among the many worthwhile quantum experiments taking advantage of long baselines in space, this white paper points to the far-reaching significance of gravitational decoherence experiments. These experiments can provide clues as to whether gravity is of a fundamental or an effective nature. They can also discriminate between the predictions of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, our default theory for quantum phenomena in background gravitational fields, and other popular alternative quantum theories.
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@article{arxiv.2111.05441,
title = {Gravitational Decoherence in Deep Space Experiments},
author = {Charis Anastopoulos and Miles Blencowe and Bei-Lok Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05441},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
7 pages. A white paper contribution to the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS) Research in Space 2023-2032 (BPS2023) conducted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.02462