Artículo
Space QUEST mission proposal: experimentally testing decoherence due to gravity
Autor/es | Joshi, Siddarth Koduru
Pienaar, Jacques Ralph, Timothy C. Cacciapuoti, Luigi McCutcheon, Will Rarity, John Giggenbach, Dirk Lim, Jin Gyu Cabello Quintero, Adán |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Aplicada II |
Fecha de publicación | 2018-06-12 |
Fecha de depósito | 2018-08-22 |
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Resumen | Models of quantum systems on curved space-times lack sufficient experimental verification. Some speculative theories suggest that quantum correlations, such as entanglement, may exhibit different behavior to purely classical ... Models of quantum systems on curved space-times lack sufficient experimental verification. Some speculative theories suggest that quantum correlations, such as entanglement, may exhibit different behavior to purely classical correlations in curved space. By measuring this effect or lack thereof, we can test the hypotheses behind several such models. For instance, as predicted by Ralph et al [5] and Ralph and Pienaar [1], a bipartite entangled system could decohere if each particle traversed through a different gravitational field gradient. We propose to study this effect in a ground to space uplink scenario. We extend the above theoretical predictions of Ralph and coworkers and discuss the scientific consequences of detecting/failing to detect the predicted gravitational decoherence. We present a detailed mission design of the European Space Agency's Space QUEST (Space—Quantum Entanglement Space Test) mission, and study the feasibility of the mission scheme. |
Identificador del proyecto | 20772/07/NL/VJ
FFG-ALR 854022 866025 4000112591/14/NL/US FWF-SFB F40 SEV-2015-0522 CEI 10001027 EP/M013472/1 |
Cita | Joshi, S.K., Pienaar, J., Ralph, T.C., Cacciapuoti, L., McCutcheon, W., Rarity, J.,...,Cabello Quintero, A. (2018). Space QUEST mission proposal: experimentally testing decoherence due to gravity. New Journal of Physics, 20, 063016-1-063016-21. |
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