Spatial Qubit Entanglement Witness for Quantum Natured Gravity

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Main Authors: Yi, Bin, Sinha, Urbasi, Home, Dipankar, Mazumdar, Anupam, Bose, Sougato
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Published: 2022
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author Yi, Bin
Sinha, Urbasi
Home, Dipankar
Mazumdar, Anupam
Bose, Sougato
author_facet Yi, Bin
Sinha, Urbasi
Home, Dipankar
Mazumdar, Anupam
Bose, Sougato
contents Evidencing the quantum nature of gravity through the entanglement of two masses has recently been proposed. Proposals using qubits to witness this entanglement can afford to bring two masses close enough so that the complete 1/r interaction is at play (as opposed to its second-order Taylor expansion), and micron-sized masses separated by 10-100 microns (with or without electromagnetic screening) suffice to provide a 0.01-1 Hz rate of growth of entanglement. Yet the only viable method proposed for obtaining qubit witnesses so far has been to employ spins embedded in the masses, whose correlations are used to witness the entanglement developed between masses during interferometry. This comes with the dual challenge of incorporating spin coherence-preserving methodologies into the protocol, as well as a demanding precision of control fields for the accurate completion of spin-aided (Stern-Gerlach) interferometry. Here we show that if superpositions of distinct spatially localized states of each mass can be created, whatever the means, simple position correlation measurements alone can yield a spatial qubit witness of entanglement between the masses. We find that a significant squeezing at a specific stage of the protocol is the principal new requirement (in addition to the need to maintain spatial quantum coherence) for its viability
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spellingShingle Spatial Qubit Entanglement Witness for Quantum Natured Gravity
Yi, Bin
Sinha, Urbasi
Home, Dipankar
Mazumdar, Anupam
Bose, Sougato
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
Evidencing the quantum nature of gravity through the entanglement of two masses has recently been proposed. Proposals using qubits to witness this entanglement can afford to bring two masses close enough so that the complete 1/r interaction is at play (as opposed to its second-order Taylor expansion), and micron-sized masses separated by 10-100 microns (with or without electromagnetic screening) suffice to provide a 0.01-1 Hz rate of growth of entanglement. Yet the only viable method proposed for obtaining qubit witnesses so far has been to employ spins embedded in the masses, whose correlations are used to witness the entanglement developed between masses during interferometry. This comes with the dual challenge of incorporating spin coherence-preserving methodologies into the protocol, as well as a demanding precision of control fields for the accurate completion of spin-aided (Stern-Gerlach) interferometry. Here we show that if superpositions of distinct spatially localized states of each mass can be created, whatever the means, simple position correlation measurements alone can yield a spatial qubit witness of entanglement between the masses. We find that a significant squeezing at a specific stage of the protocol is the principal new requirement (in addition to the need to maintain spatial quantum coherence) for its viability
title Spatial Qubit Entanglement Witness for Quantum Natured Gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03661