Document Zbl 1493.83010

Gravitational decoherence of dark matter. (English) Zbl 1493.83010

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 2020, No. 7, Paper No. 56, 33 p. (2020).

MSC:

83C56	Dark matter and dark energy
81V25	Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory
83C45	Quantization of the gravitational field
83B05	Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory
81S22	Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence
81V10	Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics
81P40	Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations
81V60	Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations
81U05	\(2\)-body potential quantum scattering theory

Keywords:

axions; dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; quantum gravity phenomenology

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