Quantum gravitational decoherence of a mechanical oscillator from spacetime fluctuations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13523v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:19:07 GMT
• Title: Quantum gravitational decoherence of a mechanical oscillator from spacetime fluctuations
• Authors: Sandro Donadi, Matteo Fadel,
• Abstract summary: We consider the scenario of a fluctuating spacetime due to a deformed commutation relation with a fluctuating deformation parameter, or to a fluctuating metric tensor. By computing the resulting dynamics and averaging over these fluctuations, we find that a system experiences a decoherence in the momentum basis.
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• Abstract: We consider the scenario of a fluctuating spacetime due to a deformed commutation relation with a fluctuating deformation parameter, or to a fluctuating metric tensor. By computing the resulting dynamics and averaging over these fluctuations, we find that a system experiences a decoherence in the momentum basis. We studied the predictions of the model for a free particle and an harmonic oscillator. Using experimental data taken from a mechanical oscillator prepared in quantum states of motion, we put a bound on the free parameters of the considered model. In addition, we comment on how these measurements can also provide bounds to other phenomenological quantum gravity models, such as the length scale for nonlocal dynamics.

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