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In this paper we consider a single particle, spin-momentum entangled state and measure the effect of relativistic boost on quantum coherence. The effect of the relativistic boost on single-particle generalized Gaussian wave packets is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Arnab Mukherjee , Soham Sen , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

The establishment of quantum communication links over a global scale is enabled by satellite nodes. We examine the influence of Earth's atmosphere on the performance of quantum optical communication channels with emphasis on the downlink…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 D. Vasylyev , W. Vogel , F. Moll

We theoretically investigate the influence of gravity on laser light in a hemispherical optical cavity, operating on Earth. The propagation of light in such a cavity is modeled by a Gaussian beam, affected by the Earth's gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Sebastian Ulbricht , Johannes Dickmann , Robert A. Müller , Stefanie Kroker , Andrey Surzhykov

A small quantum system within the gravitational field of a massive body will be entangled with the quantum degrees of freedom of the latter. Hence, the massive body acts as an environment, and it induces non-unitary dynamics, noise, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Dimitris Moustos , Charis Anastopoulos

The effects of fluctuating boundaries on a superposition state of a quantum particle in a box is studied. We consider a model in one space dimension in which the initial state is a coherent superposition of two energy eigenstates. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. A. De Lorenci , L. H. Ford

The effect of gravitational tidal forces on renormalized quantum fields propagating in curved spacetime is investigated and a generalisation of the optical theorem to curved spacetime is proved. In the case of QED, the interaction of tidal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Timothy J. Hollowood , Graham M. Shore

This paper considers the effects of gravitational induced uncertainty on some well-known quantum optics issues. First we will show that gravitational effects at quantum level destroy the notion of harmonic oscillations. Then it will be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Kourosh Nozari

We investigate decoherence of quantum superpositions induced by gravitational time dilation and spontaneous emission between two atomic levels. It has been shown that gravitational time dilation can be an universal decoherence source. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Anmin Wang

The physics of low-energy quantum systems is usually studied without explicit consideration of the background spacetime. Phenomena inherent to quantum theory on curved space-time, such as Hawking radiation, are typically assumed to be only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Igor Pikovski , Magdalena Zych , Fabio Costa , Caslav Brukner

We study the distribution and generation of quantum coherence for two-mode and multi-mode Gaussian states in de Sitter space. It is found that the quantum coherence is redistributed among the mode in different open charts under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Qianqian Liu , Cuihong Wen , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

We use quantum field theory in curved spacetime to show that gravitational redshift induces a unitary transformation on the quantum state of propagating photons. This occurs for realistic photons characterized by a finite bandwidth, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 David Edward Bruschi , Andreas W. Schell

Quantum decoherence, the evolution of pure states into mixed states, may be a feature of quantum gravity. In this paper, we show how these effects can be modelled for atmospheric neutrinos and illustrate how the standard oscillation picture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dean Morgan , Elizabeth Winstanley , Jurgen Brunner , Lee F. Thompson

Based on the 4D momentum, the influence of quintessence on the gravitational frequency shift and the deflection of light are examined in modified Schwarzschild space. We find that the frequency of photon depends on the state parameter of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 Molin Liu , Jianbo Lu , Yuanxing Gui

We examine the behavior of quadrature coherence under the measurement of the same field quadrature. This is carried out with the help of a beam splitter, which implies the contribution of an auxiliary field state impinging at the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Lucía Álvarez , Alfredo Luis

Based on the concept of curved spacetime in Einsteinian General Relativity, the field theories and their quantum theories in the curved octonion spaces etc are discussed. The research results discover the close relationships of the curved…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Zihua Weng

Quantum light propagation through turbulent atmosphere has become a subject of intensive research, spanning both theoretical and experimental studies. This interest is driven by its important applications in free-space quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 A. A. Semenov , M. Klen , I. Pechonkin

The current race in quantum communication -- endeavouring to establish a global quantum network -- must account for special and general relativistic effects. The well-studied general relativistic effects include Shapiro time-delay,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-20 Qasem Exirifard , Eric Culf , Ebrahim Karimi

We present the experimental realization of spatial quantum correlations of photons that are induced by multiple scattering of squeezed light. The quantum correlation relates photons propagating along two different light trajectories through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Stephan Smolka , Alexander Huck , Ulrik L. Andersen , Ad Lagendijk , Peter Lodahl

We discuss effects of loss of coherence in low energy quantum systems caused by or related to gravitation, referred to as gravitational decoherence. These effects, resulting from random metric fluctuations, for instance, promise to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Angelo Bassi , André Großardt , Hendrik Ulbricht

A curious effect is uncovered by calculating the it time evolving probability of reflection of a Gaussian wave packet from a rectangular potential barrier while it is perturbed by reducing its height. A time interval is found during which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Bandyopadhyay , A. S. Majumdar , D. Home