A blueprint for a simultaneous test of quantum mechanics and general relativity in a space-based quantum optics experiment

EPJ Quantum Technology - Tập 4 - Trang 1-23 - 2017
Sam Pallister1, Simon Coop2, Valerio Formichella3,4, Nicolas Gampierakis5, Virginia Notaro6, Paul Knott7, Rui Azevedo8, Nikolaus Buchheim9, Silvio de Carvalho10, Emilia Järvelä11,12, Matthieu Laporte13, Jukka-Pekka Kaikkonen14, Neda Meshksar15, Timo Nikkanen12,16, Madeleine Yttergren17
1School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
3Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
4Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Torino, Italy
5School of Natural Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
6Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
7Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
8Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
9Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
10Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
11Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Kylmälä, Finland
12Aalto University Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto, Finland
13APC (AstroParticule et Cosmologie), Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
14Low Temperature Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland
15Albert Einstein Institute, Leibniz University Hanover, Hanover, Germany
16Radar and Space Technology Research Group, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
17Chalmers University of Technology, Physics and Astronomy, Göteborg, Sweden

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In this paper we propose an experiment designed to observe a general-relativistic effect on single photon interference. The experiment consists of a folded Mach-Zehnder interferometer, with the arms distributed between a single Earth orbiter and a ground station. By compensating for other degrees of freedom and the motion of the orbiter, this setup aims to detect the influence of general relativistic time dilation on a spatially superposed single photon. The proposal details a payload to measure the required effect, along with an extensive feasibility analysis given current technological capabilities.

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