Gravitational wave imprints on spontaneous emission
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| author | Paczos, Jerzy Arya, Navdeep Qvarfort, Sofia Braun, Daniel Zych, Magdalena |
| author_facet | Paczos, Jerzy Arya, Navdeep Qvarfort, Sofia Braun, Daniel Zych, Magdalena |
| contents | Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific focus on gravitational-wave backgrounds. We demonstrate that a plane gravitational wave alters spontaneous emission from a single atom, manifesting itself as a direction-dependent change in the emission spectrum. Although the total decay rate remains unchanged, implying that no information about the gravitational wave is stored in the atomic internal state alone, the wave leaves imprints on the evolution of the composite atom-field system. To quantify how well this effect can be measured, we analyze both the classical Fisher information associated with photon number measurements and the quantum Fisher information. Our analysis indicates that the effect could be measured in state-of-the-art cold-atom experiments and points to spontaneous emission as a potential probe of low-frequency gravitational waves. |
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| spellingShingle | Gravitational wave imprints on spontaneous emission Paczos, Jerzy Arya, Navdeep Qvarfort, Sofia Braun, Daniel Zych, Magdalena Quantum Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific focus on gravitational-wave backgrounds. We demonstrate that a plane gravitational wave alters spontaneous emission from a single atom, manifesting itself as a direction-dependent change in the emission spectrum. Although the total decay rate remains unchanged, implying that no information about the gravitational wave is stored in the atomic internal state alone, the wave leaves imprints on the evolution of the composite atom-field system. To quantify how well this effect can be measured, we analyze both the classical Fisher information associated with photon number measurements and the quantum Fisher information. Our analysis indicates that the effect could be measured in state-of-the-art cold-atom experiments and points to spontaneous emission as a potential probe of low-frequency gravitational waves. |
| title | Gravitational wave imprints on spontaneous emission |
| topic | Quantum Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13872 |