Title
Space QUEST mission proposal: experimentally testing decoherence due to gravity
Author
Siddarth Koduru Joshi
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Author
Jacques Pienaar
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Author
Timothy C Ralph
Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland
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Abstract
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.
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1067271
Appeared in
Title
New Journal of Physics
Volume
20
Issue
6
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Date issued
2018
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© 2018 The Author(s)

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