Dephasing of a non-relativistic quantum particle due to a conformally fluctuating spacetime

Details Dephasing of a non-relativistic quantum particle due to a conformally fluctuating spacetime Dephasing of a non-relativistic quantum particle due to a conformally fluctuating spacetime

2009-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/0903.1668v1

Class.Quant.Grav.26:145013,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

30 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Class. Quantum Grav. (2009)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/26/14/145013

We investigate the dephasing suffered by a nonrelativistic quantum particle within a conformally fluctuating spacetime geometry. Starting from a minimally coupled massive Klein-Gordon field, the low velocity limit yields an effective Schrodinger equation where the wave function couples to gravity through an effective nonlinear potential induced by the conformal fluctuations. The quantum evolution is studied through a Dyson expansion scheme up to second order. We show that only the nonlinear part of the potential can induce dephasing. This happens through an exponential decay of the off diagonal terms of the particle density matrix. The bath of conformal radiation is modeled in 3-dimensions and its statistical properties are described in general in terms of a power spectral density. The case of a Lorentz invariant spectral density, allowing to model vacuum fluctuations at a low energy domain, is investigated and a general formula describing the loss of coherence derived. This depends quadratically on the particle mass and on the inverse cube of a typical particle dependent cutoff scale. Finally, the possibilities for experimental verification are discussed. It is shown that current interferometry experiments cannot detect such an effect. However this conclusion may improve by using high mass entangled quantum states.

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