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We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro

Environment-induced decoherence has long been recognised as being of crucial importance in the study of chaos in quantum systems. In particular, the exact form and strength of the system-environment interaction play a major role in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jessica K. Eastman , Joseph J. Hope , André R. R. Carvalho

The vacuum of quantum fields contains correlated fluctuations. When restricted to one side of a surface these have a huge entropy of entanglement that scales with the surface area. If UV physics renders this entropy finite, then a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-13 Ted Jacobson

We discuss the decoherence in a quantum system induced by interaction with gravitational degrees of freedom that are part of a higher derivative theory. The deformation of a mass distribution due to gravitational waves acquires naturally a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Linda M. van Manen

The decoherence effect due to emission of gravitons is examined. It shows the same qualitative features of the QED effect which has already been investigated, it is obviously much weaker, wholly universal and shows a stronger energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giorgio Calucci

The origin of cosmic structure is widely regarded as quantum, yet the Universe today appears classical. Standard lore attributes this to a "quantum-to-classical" transition on super-horizon scales during inflation. Gravity plays a central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Aurora Ireland

In Nature Phys. 11, 668 (2015) (Ref. [1]), a composite particle prepared in a pure initial quantum state and propagated in a uniform gravitational field is shown to undergo a decoherence process at a rate determined by the gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Pang , F. Y. Khalili , Y. Chen

Recently, it was shown that if two distant test masses, each in a spatially superposed quantum state, become entangled due to their mutual gravitational interaction, then this entanglement could serve as evidence of the quantum nature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Pratik Ghosal , Arkaprabha Ghosal , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Assuming a two-qubit system in Werner state which evolves in Heisenberg XY model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction under the effect of different environments. We evaluate and compare quantum entanglement, quantum and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 Mohammad Reza Pourkarimi , Majid Rahnama , Hossein Rooholamini

One of the biggest problems faced by those attempting to combine quantum theory and general relativity is the experimental inaccessibility of the unification scale. In this paper we show how incoherent conformal waves in the gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. L. Power , I. C. Percival

Typically one expects that when a heavy particle collides with a surface, the scattered angular distribution will follow classical mechanics. The heavy mass assures that the de Broglie wavelength of the incident particle in the direction of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jeremy M. Moix , Eli Pollak

A theory recently proposed by the author aims to explain decoherence and the thermodynamical behaviour of closed systems within a conservative, unitary, framework for quantum gravity by assuming that the operators tied to the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Bernard S. Kay

We develop a comprehensive quantum estimation framework to quantify how precisely gravitationally induced decoherence can be inferred in optomechanical systems, using single-mode Gaussian probe states. Our approach combines a microscopic…

We investigate the difference between classical and quantum dynamics of coupled magnetic dipoles. We prove that in general the dynamics of the classical interaction Hamiltonian differs from the corresponding quantum model, regardless of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. J. Milburn , R. Laflamme , B. C. Sanders , E. Knill

The (large-scale) structures we observe in the Universe are classical, but within the inflationary scenario they do originate from quantum fluctuations. This leads to the question: ''How did this quantum-to-classical transition occur?''. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Jessie de Kruijf , Giacomo Galloni , Nicola Bartolo

In this Thesis we study the quantum to classical transition process in the context of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. We shall analyze the effects that general environments, namely ohmic and non-ohmic, at zero and high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Paula I. Villar

General Theory of Relativity and Quantum theory gives two different description of the same mother nature in the big and small scale respectively. Mathematical languages of these two theories are entirely different, one is geometric while…

General Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Sijo K. Joseph

We consider a hypothesis in which classical space-time emerges from information exchange (interactions) between quantum fluctuations in the gravity theory. In this picture, a line element would arise as a statistical average of how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Anna Karlsson

General relativity is a background-independent theory of a dynamical classical spacetime geometry. Quantum theory is formulated in a classical spacetime, as an intrinsically probabilistic, contextual theory of non-classical, interfering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Tristan Hübsch , Djordje Minic

With recent developments in high-precision quantum measurements, the question of whether observations of decoherence from spacetime fluctuations are accessible experimentally arises. Here we investigate the dynamics of bound states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Teodora Oniga , Charles H. -T. Wang