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Current models of quantum interference experiments in external gravitational fields lack a common framework: while matter-wave interferometers are commonly described using the Schr\"odinger equation with a Newtonian potential, gravitational…

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The quite different behaviors exhibited by microscopic and macroscopic systems with respect to quantum interferences suggest that there may exist a naturally frontier between quantum and classical worlds. The value of the Planck mass…

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Quantum entanglement between paired photons is the foundation of optical quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networks. Traditionally, quantum information science has focused on the particle nature of photons at the microscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Byoung S. Ham

Deployment of quantum technology in space provides opportunities for new types of precision tests of gravity. On the other hand, the operational demands of such technology can make previously unimportant effects practically relevant. We…

We consider the small, of the size of the order of the wavelength, interferometer with the main mode excited by a quantum field from a nano-LED or a laser. The input field is detuned from the interferometer mode with, on average, a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Igor E. Protsenko , Alexander V. Uskov

Theories of quantum gravity based on the holographic principle predict the existence of quantum fluctuations of distance measurements that accumulate and exhibit correlations over macroscopic distances. This paper models an expected signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-19 Sander M Vermeulen , Lorenzo Aiello , Aldo Ejlli , William L Griffiths , Alasdair L James , Katherine L Dooley , Hartmut Grote

Measurement and fluctuations are closely related to each other in quantum mechanics. This fact is explicitly demonstrated in the case of a quantum non-demolition photodetector which is composed of a double quantum-wire electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Shimizu

Standard quantum mechanics and gravity are used to estimate the mass and size of idealized gravitating systems where position states of matter and geometry become indeterminate. It is proposed that well-known inconsistencies of standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-05 Craig J. Hogan

We review the investigations on the quantum structure of spactime, to be found at the Planck scale if one takes into account the operational limitations to localization of events which result from the concurrence of Quantum Mechanics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-15 Dorothea Bahns , Sergio Doplicher , Gerardo Morsella , Gherardo Piacitelli

Quantum Hall edge states offer avenues for quasiparticle interferometry, provided that the ratio between phase coherence length and quantum Hall interferometer (QHI) size is large enough. Maximizing this ratio by shrinking the QHI area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 N. Moreau , B. Brun , S. Somanchi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer , B. Hackens

We investigate the effect of quantum noise on the measurement-induced quantum phase transition in monitored random quantum circuits. Using the efficient simulability of random Clifford circuits, we find that the transition is broadened into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Beatriz C. Dias , Domagoj Perkovic , Masudul Haque , Pedro Ribeiro , Paul A. McClarty

We introduce a quantum interferometric scheme that uses states that are sharp in frequency and delocalized in position. The states are frequency modes of a quantum field that is trapped at all times in a finite volume potential, such as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Richard Howl , Ivette Fuentes

Space-borne gravitational wave detections raise new questions for heliophysics: how the Sun-Terrestrial space environment affect gravitational wave detection, and to what extent? Space-borne gravitational wave detectors use laser…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Wei Su

Searching for a weak signal at an unknown frequency is a canonical task in experiments probing fundamental physics such as gravitational-wave observatories and ultra-light dark matter haloscopes. These state-of-the-art sensors are limited…

We consider the motion of a quantum particle whose position is measured in random places at random moments in time. We show that a freely moving particle measured in this way undergoes superdiffusion, while a charged particle moving in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-10 V. Gurarie

Quantum device measurements are powerful tools to probe dark matter interactions. Among these, transmon qubits stand out for their ability to suppress external noise while remaining highly sensitive to tiny energy deposits. Ambient galactic…

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The inverse scale factor, which in classical cosmological models diverges at the singularity, is quantized in isotropic models of loop quantum cosmology by using techniques which have been developed in quantum geometry for a quantization of…

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The more information a measurement provides about a quantum system's position statistics, the less information a subsequent measurement can provide about the system's momentum statistics. This information trade-off is embodied in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Gregory A. Howland , James Schneeloch , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

Matter wave interferometers with large momentum transfers, irrespective of specific implementations, will face a universal dephasing due to relative accelerations between the interferometric mass and the associated apparatus. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Marko Toroš , Thomas W. van de Kamp , Ryan J. Marshman , M. S. Kim , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

We present an approach to building interferometric telescopes using ideas of quantum information. Current optical interferometers have limited baseline lengths, and thus limited resolution, because of noise and loss of signal due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Daniel Gottesman , Thomas Jennewein , Sarah Croke