%0 Journal Article
%T Gravitational decoherence of planetary motions
%A Serge Reynaud
%A Paulo A. Maia Neto
%A Astrid Lambrecht
%A Marc-Thierry Jaekel
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1209/epl/i2001-00286-8
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0102061v1