New Journal of Physics (Jan 2018)
Space QUEST mission proposal: experimentally testing decoherence due to gravity
- Siddarth Koduru Joshi,
- Jacques Pienaar,
- Timothy C Ralph,
- Luigi Cacciapuoti,
- Will McCutcheon,
- John Rarity,
- Dirk Giggenbach,
- Jin Gyu Lim,
- Vadim Makarov,
- Ivette Fuentes,
- Thomas Scheidl,
- Erik Beckert,
- Mohamed Bourennane,
- David Edward Bruschi,
- Adán Cabello,
- Jose Capmany,
- Alberto Carrasco-Casado,
- Eleni Diamanti,
- Miloslav Dušek,
- Dominique Elser,
- Angelo Gulinatti,
- Robert H Hadfield,
- Thomas Jennewein,
- Rainer Kaltenbaek,
- Michael A Krainak,
- Hoi-Kwong Lo,
- Christoph Marquardt,
- Gerard Milburn,
- Momtchil Peev,
- Andreas Poppe,
- Valerio Pruneri,
- Renato Renner,
- Christophe Salomon,
- Johannes Skaar,
- Nikolaos Solomos,
- Mario Stipčević,
- Juan P Torres,
- Morio Toyoshima,
- Paolo Villoresi,
- Ian Walmsley,
- Gregor Weihs,
- Harald Weinfurter,
- Anton Zeilinger,
- Marek Żukowski,
- Rupert Ursin,
- (Space QUEST topical team)
Affiliations
- Siddarth Koduru Joshi
- ORCiD
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol , Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
- Jacques Pienaar
- ORCiD
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Timothy C Ralph
- Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland , St. Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
- Luigi Cacciapuoti
- European Space Agency , Keplerlaan 1—PO Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk ZH, The Netherlands
- Will McCutcheon
- Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol , Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
- John Rarity
- Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol , Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
- Dirk Giggenbach
- German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation , Muenchner Strasse 20, D-82234 Wessling, Germany
- Jin Gyu Lim
- ORCiD
- Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
- Vadim Makarov
- Russian Quantum Center and MISIS University, Moscow
- Ivette Fuentes
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Thomas Scheidl
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Erik Beckert
- Precision Engineering Department , Fraunhofer IOF, Albert-Einstein-Straße 7, D-07745 Jena, Germany
- Mohamed Bourennane
- Physics department, Stockholm University , Albanova universitetscentrum, Universitetsvägen 10, SE-114 18 Stockholm, Sweden
- David Edward Bruschi
- ORCiD
- York Centre for Quantum Technologies, Department of Physics, University of York , YO10 5DD Heslington, United Kingdom
- Adán Cabello
- University of Seville , E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
- Jose Capmany
- iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politcnica de Valencia , Valencia E-46022, Spain
- Alberto Carrasco-Casado
- Space Communications Laboratory , National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, 184-8795 Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
- Eleni Diamanti
- ORCiD
- Laboratoire dInformatique de Paris 6, CNRS, Sorbonne Université , F-75005 Paris, France
- Miloslav Dušek
- Department of Optics, Faculty of Science, Palacky University , 17. listopadu 12, 772 00, Olomouc, Czechia
- Dominique Elser
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light , Günther-Scharowsky Str. 1 Bldg. 24, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
- Angelo Gulinatti
- Politecnico di Milano , Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- Robert H Hadfield
- School of Engineering, University of Glasgow , Glasgow G12 8LT, United Kingdom
- Thomas Jennewein
- Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
- Rainer Kaltenbaek
- Vienna Center of Quantum Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna , Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Michael A Krainak
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America
- Hoi-Kwong Lo
- Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, Department of Physics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto , M5S 3G4 Toronto, Canada
- Christoph Marquardt
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light , Günther-Scharowsky Str. 1 Bldg. 24, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
- Gerard Milburn
- Department of Physics, University of Queensland , St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
- Momtchil Peev
- Optical and Quantum Laboratory, Munich Research Center , Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH Riesstrasse 25, 80992 Munich, Germany
- Andreas Poppe
- Optical and Quantum Laboratory, Munich Research Center , Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH Riesstrasse 25, 80992 Munich, Germany
- Valerio Pruneri
- Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques,The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, E-08860 Barcelona, Spain
- Renato Renner
- Institute for Theoretical Physics , ETH Zurich, 8093, Switzerland
- Christophe Salomon
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-PSL Research University , CNRS, UPMC, Coll‘ege de France, 24, rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France
- Johannes Skaar
- Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo , PO Box 70, NO-2027 Kjeller, Norway
- Nikolaos Solomos
- Physical Sciences Sector, Applied Physics & Naval Electrooptics Laboratories, Hellenic Naval Academy , Hatzikyriakeion, Piraeus, 18503, Greece
- Mario Stipčević
- Ruder Bošković Institute , Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices and Division of Experimental Physics, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
- Juan P Torres
- ICFO- Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya E-08860 Barcelona, Spain
- Morio Toyoshima
- Space Communications Laboratory , National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, 184-8795 Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
- Paolo Villoresi
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellInformazione, Università degli Studi di Padova , Padova, Italy
- Ian Walmsley
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford , Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- Gregor Weihs
- ORCiD
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Harald Weinfurter
- Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik , Hans-Kopfermann-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Anton Zeilinger
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- Marek Żukowski
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, University of Gdańsk , 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
- Rupert Ursin
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences , Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
- (Space QUEST topical team)
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aac58b
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 20,
no. 6
p. 063016
Abstract
Models of quantum systems on curved space-times lack sufficient experimental verification. Some speculative theories suggest that quantum correlations, such as entanglement, may exhibit different behavior to purely classical correlations in curved space. By measuring this effect or lack thereof, we can test the hypotheses behind several such models. For instance, as predicted by Ralph et al [ 5 ] and Ralph and Pienaar [ 1 ], a bipartite entangled system could decohere if each particle traversed through a different gravitational field gradient. We propose to study this effect in a ground to space uplink scenario. We extend the above theoretical predictions of Ralph and coworkers and discuss the scientific consequences of detecting/failing to detect the predicted gravitational decoherence. We present a detailed mission design of the European Space Agency’s Space QUEST (Space—Quantum Entanglement Space Test) mission, and study the feasibility of the mission scheme.
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