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Space QUEST mission proposal: experimentally testing decoherence due to gravity

  • Space QUEST Topical Team
  • , Siddarth Koduru Joshi (Corresponding author)
  • , Jacques Pienaar
  • , Timothy C. Ralph
  • , Luigi Cacciapuoti
  • , Will McCutcheon
  • , John Rarity
  • , Dirk Giggenbach
  • , Jin Gyu Lim
  • , Vadim Makarov
  • , Ivette Fuentes
  • , Thomas Scheidl
  • , Erik Beckert
  • , Mohamed Bourennane
  • , David Edward Bruschi
  • , Adam Cabello
  • , Jose Capmany
  • , Alberto Carrasco-Casado
  • , Eleni Diamanti
  • , Miloslav Dusek
  • Dominique Elser, Angelo Gulinatti, Robert H. Hadfield, Thomas Jennewein, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Michael A. Krainak, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Christoph Marquardt, Gerard Milburn, Momtchil Peev, Andreas Poppe, Valerio Pruneri, Renato Renner, Christophe Salomon, Johannes Skaar, Nikolaos Solomos, Mario Stipcevic, Juan P. Torres, Morio Toyoshima, Paolo Villoresi, Ian Walmsley, Gregor Weihs, Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger, Marek Zukowski, Rupert Ursin

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Original languageEnglish
Article number063016
Number of pages21
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume20
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jun 2018

Funding

This work was funded by ESA under the grant number: 20772/07/NL/VJ (Topical Team). We also thank the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG-ALR contracts 854022 and 866025), the European Space Agency (ESA-ARTES contract 4000112591/14/NL/US) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF-SFB contract F40) We would like to thank all members of the ESA topical team for their suggestions. We specially thank our counterparts at ESA Olivier Minster, Nadine Boersma and Zoran Sodnik. Finally we wish to thank Norbert Lutkenhaus and Cesare Barbieri for their support and contributions to the Space QUEST mission. VP acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Severo Ochoa program for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2015-0522), from Fundaci Privada Cellex, and from Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA program. TCR acknowledges support by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (Project No. CE110001027). WM, JR and SKJ would like to acknowledge the funding from the Quantum Communications Hub, funded under EPSRC grant EP/M013472/1.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103025 Quantum mechanics
  • 103028 Theory of relativity

Keywords

  • gravitational decoherence
  • quantum communication
  • entanglement
  • satellite
  • relativity
  • quantum mechanics
  • TIME-LIKE CURVES
  • QUANTUM
  • INFORMATION
  • OPTICS

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