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Spacetime Conformal Fluctuations and Quantum Dephasing
Paolo M. Bonifacio
Any quantum system interacting with a complex environment undergoes decoherence. Empty space is filled with vacuum energy due to matter fields in their ground state and represents…
Parametric instability induced scalar gravitational waves from a model pulsating neutron star
Charles H. -T. Wang, Paolo M. Bonifacio, Robert Bingham +1
We identify a new dynamical mechanism for a strong scalar gravitational field effect. To illustrate this mechanism, we investigate the parametric excitation and emission of scalar…
Dephasing of a non-relativistic quantum particle due to a conformally fluctuating spacetime
Paolo M. Bonifacio, Charles H. -T. Wang, J. Tito Mendonca +1
We investigate the dephasing suffered by a nonrelativistic quantum particle within a conformally fluctuating spacetime geometry. Starting from a minimally coupled massive Klein-Gor…
Nonlinear random gravity. I. Stochastic gravitational waves and spontaneous conformal fluctuations due to the quantum vacuum
Charles H. -T. Wang, Paolo M. Bonifacio, Robert Bingham +1
We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a…