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Particle detectors as witnesses for quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-06-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We present a model for the coupling of non-relativistic quantum systems with a linearized gravitational field from a Lagrangian formulation. The coupling strongly resembles the light-matter interaction models that are known to be well approximated by the Unruh-DeWitt detector model for interactions with quantum fields. We then apply our model to linearized quantum gravity, which allows us to propose a detector based setup that can in principle probe the quantum nature of the gravitational field.

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@article{arxiv.2004.00724,
  title  = {Particle detectors as witnesses for quantum gravity},
  author = {Rémi Faure and T. Rick Perche and Bruno de S. L. Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00724},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure