Graviton-induced which-path decoherence in matter-wave interferometry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20867v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:46:22 GMT
• Title: Graviton-induced which-path decoherence in matter-wave interferometry
• Abstract summary: We derive which-path decoherence for matter-wave interferometry that arises from tracing out the gravitons of linearized quantum gravity.<n>Because the gravitons are driven linearly by the matter source, the branch-dependent evolution can be solved exactly.<n>The which-path decoherence induced by radiative gravitons is therefore negligible in current matter-wave interferometers.
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• Abstract: We derive which-path decoherence for matter-wave interferometry that arises from tracing out the gravitons of linearized quantum gravity. Because the gravitons are driven linearly by the matter source, the branch-dependent evolution can be solved exactly, and the reduced coherence is given by the characteristic function of the initial graviton state, evaluated at the difference of the branch-induced field displacements. In vacuum, the decoherence exponent equals half the mean number of gravitons radiated by the difference source. For a smooth Gaussian trajectory, it reduces to $Γ_{\rm vac}=(8/15)\,Gm^2d^4/(\hbar c^5τ^4)$, ranging from $10^{-89}$ to $10^{-61}$ across representative matter-wave platforms. For a general squeezed graviton vacuum, we obtain an exact expression in which squeezing either suppresses or enhances the vacuum response, depending on the squeezing phase. For the strongly squeezed state produced by inflation, this expression reduces to $Γ_{\rm inf}=(π/20)\,Ω_{\rm inf}(md^2H_0/\hbar)^2$ and reaches at most $\sim10^{-27}$ for optimistic parameters. Hence, the which-path decoherence induced by radiative gravitons is therefore negligible in current matter-wave interferometers.

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