Gravitational decoherence of planetary motions
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We study the effect of the scattering of gravitational waves on planetary motions, say the motion of the Moon around the Earth. Though this effect has a negligible influence on dissipation, it dominates fluctuations and the associated decoherence mechanism, due to the very high effective temperature of the background of gravitational waves in our galactic environment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0102061,
title = {Gravitational decoherence of planetary motions},
author = {Serge Reynaud and Paulo A. Maia Neto and Astrid Lambrecht and Marc-Thierry Jaekel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0102061},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, no figure, to appear in EuroPhysics Letters; needs `epl.cls'