Gravitational decoherence for mesoscopic systems

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2015.10.064MaRDI QIDQ341929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen L. Adler, Angelo Bassi

Publication date 17 November 2016

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04414

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational decoherenceopen quantum systemsquantum foundationsquantum interferencequantum to classical transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) General relativity (83C99)

Abstract: We extend the recent gravitational decoherence analysis of Pikovski et al. to an individual mesoscopic system with internal state characterized by a coherent superposition of energy eigenstates. We express the Pikovski et al. effect directly in terms of the energy variance, and show that the interferometric visibility is bounded from below. Hence unlike collisional decoherence, the visibility does not approach zero at large times, although for a large system it can become very small.

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