Einstein--Langevin source correlations in closed non-relativistic systems

Abstract:Stochastic semiclassical gravity represents stress--energy fluctuations through the Einstein--Langevin noise kernel. We examine its Newtonian projection for specified closed, particle-number-conserving non-relativistic sources and distinguish the source covariance from a reduced matter channel. The connected one-particle covariance is state dependent and differs from the universal potential-noise law postulated in the Diósi--Penrose model. To relate the source spectrum to dephasing, we define a separate static probe subject to a prescribed Gaussian noise law. For a finite-variance source operator in an isolated non-degenerate eigenstate, the full connected spectral measure has a gap around zero. The probe dephasing exponent is then bounded and its long-time slope vanishes. Stationary doublets can instead carry static or low-frequency spectral lines, while a specified freely spreading Gaussian source gives a finite limiting exponent. Continuum results depend on preparation, normalisation, infrared regularisation and the order of limits. We also compare coherent and incoherent many-body preparations and establish no-signalling for fixed classical-noise channels. These results identify the spatial, temporal and dynamical assumptions needed to relate source fluctuations to a matter-decoherence model. They do not exclude Markovian limits in other number-conserving non-relativistic preparations.

arXiv:2610.02980 [quant-ph]

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