28 August 2023 to 1 September 2023
Leipzig University
Europe/Berlin timezone

Towards the optimal experiment of gravity-induced quantum entanglement

30 Aug 2023, 17:00
20m
Leipzig University

Leipzig University

Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences Linnéstr. 5 04103 Leipzig
Contributed talk Afternoon session 2

Speaker

Tomohiro Fujita (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)

Description

Recently, various experiments have been proposed to verify quantum entanglement induced by Newtonian gravitational interactions. However, no feasible setup has yet been found that is certainly achievable with existing techniques. To search for an optimal setup, we compute the logarithmic negativity of two oscillators with arbitrary quadratic potential and coupled by gravity. We find that unstable inverted oscillators generate gravity-induced entanglement most quickly and are most resistant to decoherence from environmental fluctuations. As such an example, we propose an experiment of optical levitation of mirrors using the anti-spring effect.

Primary author

Tomohiro Fujita (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)

Co-authors

Youka Kaku (Nagoya university) Prof. Akira Matsumura (Kyushu University) Dr Yuta Michimura (California Institute of Technology)

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