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Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum stress-energy tensor are highly non-Gaussian, and can have unexpectedly large effects on spacetime geometry. In this paper, we study a two-dimensional dilaton gravity model coupled to a conformal field, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-18 S. Carlip , Ricardo A. Mosna , J. P. M. Pitelli

It is generally expected that quantum gravity affects the structure of space-time by introducing stochastic fluctuations in the geometry, and, ultimately, in the measurements of four-distances and four-momenta.These fluctuations may induce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Aloisio , P. Blasi , A. Galante , P. L. Ghia , A. F. Grillo

Optical modes possessing orbital angular momentum constitute a very useful platform for experimental studies on the quantum limits of Thermodynamics. Here, we present experimental results for entangled photon pairs subjected to thin…

In the recent paper [1] it was shown that for paraxial propagation of scalar waves, the transverse linear momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are related to the wave coherence function. Although both of these quantities are…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-10 Mikhail Charnotskii

We argue that quantum-gravitational fluctuations in the space-time background give the vacuum non-trivial optical properties that include diffusion and consequent uncertainties in the arrival times of photons, causing stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-11 John Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

The role of entanglement in determining the non-classicality of a given interaction has gained significant traction over the last few years. In particular, as the basis for new experimental proposals to test the quantum nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 A. Douglas K. Plato , Dennis Rätzel , Chuanqi Wan

In this work, we explore the motion of a twisted particle possessing intrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) as it traverses a weak stellar gravitational field, which we approximate using a polytropic model. We disregard the spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Dan-Dan Lian , Peng-Ming Zhang

We propose a thought experiment to detect low-energy Quantum Gravity phenomena using Quantum Optical Information Technologies. Gravitational field perturbations, such as gravitational waves and quantum gravity fluctuations, decohere the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-15 Fabrizio Tamburini

Twisted light with orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been extensively studied for applications in quantum and classical communications, microscopy, and optical micromanipulation. Ejecting the naturally high angular momentum whispering…

We investigate the interplay between gravity and the quantum coherence present in the state of a pulse of light propagating in curved spacetime. We first introduce an operational way to distinguish between the overall shift in the pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 David Edward Bruschi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Frank K. Wilhelm , Andreas W. Schell

Photons with a twisted phase front carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and have become important in various fields of optics, such as quantum and classical information science or optical tweezers. Because no upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Robert Fickler , Geoff T. Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Ping Koy Lam , Anton Zeilinger

Light wave-packets propagating from the Earth to satellites will be deformed by the curved background spacetime of the Earth, thus influencing the quantum state of light. We show that Gaussian coherence of photon pairs, which are initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Tonghua Liu , Shumin Wu , Shuo Cao

As an emerging channel resource for modern optics, big data, internet traffic and quantum technologies, twisted photons carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been extended their applicable boundary in different media, such as optical…

We consider the propagation of two photonic qubits, initially maximally entangled in their orbital angular momenta (OAM), across a turbulent atmosphere. By introducing the {\it phase correlation length} of an OAM beam, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 Nina D. Leonhard , Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin , Andreas Buchleitner

Quantum gravitational effects may induce stochastic fluctuations in the structure of space-time, to produce a characteristic foamy structure. It has been known for some time now that these fluctuations may have observable consequences for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 R. Aloisio , P. Blasi , A. Galante , A. F. Grillo

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

We demonstrate experimentally how orbital-angular-momentum entanglement of two photons evolves under influence of atmospheric turbulence. We find that the quantum channel capacity is surprisingly robust: Its typical horizontal decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-22 Bart-Jan Pors , C. H. Monken , Eric R. Eliel , J. P. Woerdman

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) as both classical and quantum states of light has proven essential in numerous applications, from high-capacity information transfer to enhanced precision and accuracy in metrology. Here, we extend OAM…

Light beams with azimuthal phase dependence [$exp(i \ell\phi)$] carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) which differs fundamentally from spin angular momentum (SAM) associated with polarization. Striking difference between the two momenta is…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ahmed H. Dorrah , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Mo Mojahedi

High-dimensional entanglement has demonstrated potential for increasing channel capacity and resistance to noise in quantum information processing. However, its distribution is a challenging task, imposing a severe restriction on its…