Measurement-induced entanglement entropy of gravitational wave detections
arXiv:2411.15632 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139628
Abstract
Research on the projective measurement of gravitons increasingly supports Dysons conclusions that the detection of single gravitons is not physically possible. It is therefore prudent to consider alternative signatures of non-classicality in gravitational wave detections to determine if gravity is quantized. Coincident multiple detector operations make it possible to consider the bipartite measurement-induced entanglement, in the detection process, as a signature of non-classicality. By developing a model of measurement-induced entanglement, based on a fixed number of gravitons for the bipartite system, we demonstrate that the entanglement entropy is on the order of a few percent of the mean number of gravitons interacting with the detectors. The bipartite measurement-induced entanglement is part of the detection process, which avoids the challenges associated with developing signatures of production-induced entanglement, due to the extremely low gravitational wave detector efficiencies. The calculation of normalized measurement-induced entanglement entropy demonstrates the potential of developing physically meaningful signatures of non-classicality based on bipartite detections of gravitational radiation. This result is in stark contrast to the discouraging calculations based on single-point detections.
arXiv comment12 pages and 2 figures
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