Limits on inference of gravitational entanglement
Limits on inference of gravitational entanglement
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引力纠缠推断的局限性
DOI:
10.1103/physrevresearch.4.013024
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Ma Y
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作者:
Ma Y
Combining gravity with quantum mechanics remains one of the biggest challenges of physics. In the past years, experiments with optomechanical systems have been proposed that may give indirect clues about the quantum nature of gravity. In a recent variation of such tests [Carney , PRX Quantum 2, 030330 (2021)2691-339910.1103/PRXQuantum.2.030330], the authors propose to gravitationally entangle an atom interferometer with a mesoscopic oscillator. The interaction results in periodic drops and revivals of the interferometeric visibility, which under specific assumptions indicate the gravitational generation of entanglement. Here, we study semiclassical models of the atom interferometer that can reproduce the same effect. We show that the core signature—periodic collapses and revivals of the visibility—can appear if the atom is subject to a random unitary channel, including the case where the oscillator is fully classical and situations even without explicit modeling of the oscillator. We also show that the nonclassicality of the oscillator vanishes unless the system is very close to its ground state, and even when the system is in the ground state, the nonclassicality is limited by the coupling strength. Our results thus indicate that deducing entanglement from the proposed experiment is very challenging, since fulfilling and verifying the nonclassicality assumptions constitute a significant challenge in their own right.
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