Astrophysically sourced quantum coherent photonic signals
Arjun Berera, Jaime Calderón-Figueroa, Liang Chen, Thomas W. Kephart · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2023
Stimulated emission is shown to be robust in stars. Through Bose enhancement this produces quantum states of aligned, monochromatic photons somewhat similar to a laser. The probability of creating such states is computed. We show that from the solar corona such quantum states would propagate outside of the solar region and through the Solar System without decoherence. For a $1\text{\ensuremath{-}}{\mathrm{m}}^{2}$ test detector at the distance of the Earth from the Sun, we estimate rates of such quantum states in the few per second thus potentially detectable. The same process should lead to such quantum states also arriving from stars at interstellar distances.