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The Effect of Stationary Axisymmetric Spacetimes in Interferometric Visibility

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-07-23 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this manuscript, we consider a scenario in which a spin-1/2 quanton goes through a superposition of co-rotating and counter-rotating geodetic circular paths, which play the role of the paths of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in a stationary and axisymmetric spacetime. Since the spin of the particle plays the role of a quantum clock, as the quanton moves in a superposed path it gets entangled with the momentum (or the path), and this will cause the interferometric visibility (or the internal quantum coherence) to drop, since, in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes there is a difference in proper time elapsed along the two trajectories. However, as we show here, the proper time of each path will couple to the corresponding local Wigner rotation, and the effect in the spin of the superposed particle will be a combination of both. Besides, we discuss a general framework to study the local Wigner rotations of spin-1/2 particles in general stationary axisymmetric spacetimes for circular orbits.

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@article{arxiv.2102.09623,
  title  = {The Effect of Stationary Axisymmetric Spacetimes in Interferometric Visibility},
  author = {Marcos L. W. Basso and Jonas Maziero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.09623},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2101.06320