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A possible experimental test of quantized gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

While it is widely believed that gravity should ultimately be treated as a quantum theory, there remains a possibility that general relativity should not be quantized. If this is the case, the coupling of classical gravity to the expectation value of the quantum stress-energy tensor will naturally lead to nonlinearities in the Schrodinger equation. By numerically investigating time evolution in the nonrelativistic "Schrodinger-Newton" approximation, we show that such nonlinearities may be observable in the next generation of molecular interferometry experiments.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0606120,
  title  = {A possible experimental test of quantized gravity},
  author = {P. J. Salzman and S. Carlip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0606120},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, 2 ps figures

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