| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 54, Number 2, April 2001
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 135 - 140 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00286-8 | |
| Published online | 01 December 2003 | |
Gravitational decoherence of planetary motions
1
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (Laboratoire ENS, Université Pierre
et Marie Curie, CNRS.) - Campus Jussieu case 74,
F75252 Paris, France
2
Instituto de Física, UFRJ - Caixa Postal 68528,
21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (Laboratoire CNRS, ENS, Université Paris-Sud.) -
24 rue Lhomond, F75231 Paris, France
Corresponding author: reynaud@spectro.jussieu.fr
Received:
13
November
2000
Accepted:
9
February
2001
We study the effect of the scattering of gravitational waves on planetary motions, say the motion of the Moon around the Earth. Though this effect has a negligible influence on dissipation, it dominates fluctuations and the associated decoherence mechanism, due to the very high effective temperature of the background of gravitational waves in our galactic environment.
PACS: 04.30.-w – Gravitational waves: theory / 03.65.Yz – Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods / 95.10.Ce – Celestial mechanics (including n-body problems)
© EDP Sciences, 2001
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