Schr\"odinger's cat for de Sitter spacetime
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10025v2
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:10:57 GMT
- Title: Schr\"odinger's cat for de Sitter spacetime
- Authors: Joshua Foo, Robert B. Mann and Magdalena Zych
- Abstract summary: We provide a new phenomenological description for the response of quantum probes on a spacetime manifold in quantum superpositions.
Applying this approach to static de Sitter space, we discover scenarios in which the effects produced by the quantum spacetime are operationally indistinguishable from those induced by superpositions of Rindler trajectories in Minkowski spacetime.
The distinguishability of such quantum spacetimes from superpositions of trajectories in flat space reduces to the equivalence or non-equivalence of the field correlations between the superposed amplitudes.
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- Abstract: Quantum gravity is expected to contain descriptions of semiclassical
spacetime geometries in quantum superpositions. To date, no framework for
modelling such superpositions has been devised. Here, we provide a new
phenomenological description for the response of quantum probes (i.e.
Unruh-deWitt detectors) on a spacetime manifold in quantum superposition. By
introducing an additional control degree of freedom, one can assign a Hilbert
space to the spacetime, allowing it to exist in a superposition of spatial or
curvature states. Applying this approach to static de Sitter space, we discover
scenarios in which the effects produced by the quantum spacetime are
operationally indistinguishable from those induced by superpositions of Rindler
trajectories in Minkowski spacetime. The distinguishability of such quantum
spacetimes from superpositions of trajectories in flat space reduces to the
equivalence or non-equivalence of the field correlations between the superposed
amplitudes.
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