A framework for separating dephasing from decoherence in matter-wave Bell interferometers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19984v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:16:58 GMT
• Title: A framework for separating dephasing from decoherence in matter-wave Bell interferometers
• Abstract summary: Matter-wave Bell interferometers provide a sensitive probe of mass-dependent decoherence in quantum systems.<n>We present a framework based on the Schwinger SU(2) mapping to separate contributions into local unitaries or dissipative channels.<n>When this framework is extended to involve atoms of different mass, we show that the known differential decoherence channels are negligible at current sensitivity.
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• Abstract: Matter-wave Bell interferometers provide a sensitive probe of mass-dependent decoherence in entangled quantum systems. The degree of entanglement is obtained from the Bell-correlation amplitude of this interferometer. For observing potential mass-dependent decoherence, a reliable interpretation of any observed reduction in the Bell correlation amplitude is required, which depends on three factors: geometric dephasing, environmental decoherence, and technical dilution from source and detection statistics. In this work, we present a framework based on the Schwinger SU(2) mapping to separate these contributions into local unitaries or dissipative channels. We show that by evaluating the Bell correlation at zero interferometer path difference, it is possible to extract a source-distribution-independent Bell correlation amplitude reduction. When this framework is extended to involve atoms of different mass, we show that the known differential decoherence channels are negligible at current sensitivity. This yields a concrete bound at which a dual-species Bell interferometer would begin to signal differential decoherence beyond the known systematics, opening the way for such systems to probe new physics, such as mass-dependent decoherence mechanisms.

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