Gravitational decoherence: A general nonrelativistic model

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چکیده

We derive a general quantum master equation for the dynamics of scalar bosonic particle interacting with weak, stochastic and classical external gravitational field. The predicts decoherence in position, momentum energy. show how our reproduces results present literature by taking appropriate limits, thus explaining apparent contradiction their dynamical description. Our result is relevant light increasing interest low energy quantum-gravity regime.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Physical review

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0556-2813', '1538-4497', '1089-490X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.104041