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HYPER and Gravitational Decoherence

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We study the decoherence process associated with the scattering of stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves. We show that it has a negligible influence on HYPER-like atomic interferometers although it may dominate decoherence of macroscopic motions, such as the planetary motion of the Moon around the Earth.

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  1. Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Laboratoire CNRS, ENS et UPMC, UPMC, Campus Jussieu case 74, F-75252, Paris, France

    Serge Reynaud, Brahim Lamine & Astrid Lambrecht

  2. Instituto de Física, UFRJ, CP 68528, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Paulo Maia Neto

  3. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Laboratoire CNRS, ENS, UPMC et Univ. Paris-Sud, ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, F75231, Paris, France

    Marc-Thierry Jaekel

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Reynaud, S., Lamine, B., Lambrecht, A. et al. HYPER and Gravitational Decoherence. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 2271–2288 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000046183.31629.02

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