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Gravitational Decoherence and EPR Correlations

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It is shown that gravitons in a mixed (thermal) state can lead to a decoherence in large quantum systems. As a consequence the nonlocal Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen phenomena resulting from quantum coherence can disappear in some particle states after a quantization of Einstein gravity.

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Haba, Z. Gravitational Decoherence and EPR Correlations. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 40, 985–999 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004135108032

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