Dephasing of entangled atoms as an improved test of quantum gravity

Details Dephasing of entangled atoms as an improved test of quantum gravity Dephasing of entangled atoms as an improved test of quantum gravity

2008-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/0812.3052v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, 2 figures

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In a recent article Wang et al. (Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) L59), demonstrated that the phase of a particle fluctuates due to interactions with random deviations of a conformal gravitational field. Furthermore they demonstrated that atom interferometers are sensitive to these fluctuations and that sensitivity to Planck scale effects could be achieved with a sufficiently sensitive interferometer. In this paper we demonstrate that a class of entangled states, the N-atom Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, provide a better scaling than atom interferometers and that current experiments are capable of making a significant impact in this field. We outline an experiment which uses atomic beams of rubidium atoms excited to Rydberg states. The atoms undergo controlled collisions in high quality factor microwave resonators in a sequence that makes the resulting state highly sensitive to conformal field fluctuations. We show that a significant advance in sensitivity is possible.

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