Acceleration Noise Induced Decoherence in Stern-Gerlach Interferometers for Gravity Experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10832v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:54:34 GMT
• Title: Acceleration Noise Induced Decoherence in Stern-Gerlach Interferometers for Gravity Experiments
• Authors: Meng-Zhi Wu,
• Abstract summary: Stern-Gerlach interferometer (SGI) is a matter-wave interferometer driven by magnetic field and has been proposed for many gravity experiments. Acceleration noises can cause decoherence problems of SGI, including dephasing, loss of contrast and position localization decoherence. I will theoretically study these mechanisms of decoherence based on the analytical time-evolution operator of an SGI.
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• Abstract: Stern-Gerlach interferometer (SGI) is a kind of matter-wave interferometer driven by magnetic field and has been proposed for many gravity experiments. Acceleration noises such as vibration and inertial forces, together with higher-order noises like the fluctuation of the gravity gradient or the magnetic field, can cause decoherence problems of SGI, including dephasing, loss of contrast and position localization decoherence. In this paper, I will theoretically study these mechanisms of decoherence based on the analytical time-evolution operator of an SGI modeled as a harmonic oscillator under acceleration noises described by Gaussian stochastic processes. As will be proved, for a single arm of an SGI, the shape of the Wigner function keeps invariant under an acceleration noise, although the phase and the coordinate in the classical phase space fluctuate as linear responses to the noise, and its density matrix also experiences a position localization decoherence due to the ensemble average. For the witness constructed in the spin space, the degrees of freedom in the classical phase space have to be traced out. Then acceleration noises can lead to dephasing effects on the witness, while the fluctuation on the trajectories in the phase space and position localization decoherence of the two arms will be canceled with each other. On the other hand, higher-order noises can be treated as non-uniform acceleration noises in the leading order, and they will cause decoherence in the spin space due to the contrast loss besides the dephasing. Remarkably, the randomness of the noise is essential for dephasing and position-localization decoherence, and these two mechanisms don't cause purity loss or entropy increase if the noise is monitored as a deterministic process during the experiment.

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