Towards the Laboratory Search for Space-Time Dissipation. Yang, H., Price, L. R., Perkins, N. B., Adhikari, R. X., Miao, H., & Chen, Y. Technical Report CaltechAUTHORS:20160108-094643919, April, 2015. We thank Rai Weiss, Eric K. Gustafson, Jan Harms, Nico Yunes, Yuri Levin, Poghos Kazarian and John Preskill for illuminating discussions. We acknowledge funding provided by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. HY, HM, and YC are supported by NSF Grant PHY-0601459, PHY-0653653, CAREER Grant PHY-0956189, and the David and Barbara Groce Startup Fund at the California Institute of Technology. RXA, NDSL and LP are supported by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-0555406. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research & Innovation.
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It has been speculated that gravity could be an emergent phenomenon, with classical general relativity as an effective, macroscopic theory, valid only for classical systems at large temporal and spatial scales. As in classical continuum dynamics, the existence of underlying microscopic degrees of freedom may lead to macroscopic dissipative behaviors. With the hope that such dissipative behaviors of gravity could be revealed by carefully designed experiments in the laboratory, we consider a phenomenological model that adds dissipations to the gravitational field, much similar to frictions in solids and fluids. Constraints to such dissipative behavior can already be imposed by astrophysical observations and existing experiments, but mostly in lower frequencies. We propose a series of experiments working in higher frequency regimes, which may potentially put more stringent bounds on these models.
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	Abstract = {It has been speculated that gravity could be an emergent phenomenon, with classical general relativity as an effective, macroscopic theory, valid only for classical systems at large temporal and spatial scales. As in classical continuum dynamics, the existence of underlying microscopic degrees of freedom may lead to macroscopic dissipative behaviors. With the hope that such dissipative behaviors of gravity could be revealed by carefully designed experiments in the laboratory, we consider a phenomenological model that adds dissipations to the gravitational field, much similar to frictions in solids and fluids. Constraints to such dissipative behavior can already be imposed by astrophysical observations and existing experiments, but mostly in lower frequencies. We propose a series of experiments working in higher frequency regimes, which may potentially put more stringent bounds on these models.},
	Author = {Huan Yang and Larry R. Price and N. B. Perkins and Rana X. Adhikari and Haixing Miao and Yanbei Chen},
	Journal = {Towards the Laboratory Search for Space-Time Dissipation},
	Keywords = {General Relativity, Quantum Cosmology},
	Month = {April},
	Note = {We thank Rai Weiss, Eric K. Gustafson, Jan Harms, Nico Yunes, Yuri Levin, Poghos Kazarian and John Preskill for illuminating discussions. We acknowledge funding provided by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. HY, HM, and YC are supported by NSF Grant PHY-0601459, PHY-0653653, CAREER Grant PHY-0956189, and the David and Barbara Groce Startup Fund at the California Institute of Technology. RXA, NDSL and LP are supported by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-0555406. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research \& Innovation.},
	Number = {CaltechAUTHORS:20160108-094643919},
	Title = {Towards the Laboratory Search for Space-Time Dissipation},
	Type = {Discussion Paper},
	Url = {http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160108-094643919},
	Year = {2015},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160108-094643919}}

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