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A truly relativistic gravity mediated entanglement protocol using superpositions of rotational energies

Quantum Physics 2025-12-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Experimental proposals for testing quantum gravity-induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) typically involve two interacting masses which are each in a spatial superposition state. Here, we propose instead a QGEM experiment with two particles which are each in a superposition of rotational states, this amounts to a superposition of mass through mass-energy equivalence. In sharp contrast to the typical protocols studied, our proposal is genuinely relativistic. It does not consider a quantum positional degree of freedom but relies on the fact that rotational energy gravitates: the effect we consider disappears in the limit where the speed of light c approaches infinity. Furthermore, this approach would test a feature unique to gravity since it amounts to sourcing a spacetime in superposition due to a superposition of 'charge'.

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@article{arxiv.2403.02062,
  title  = {A truly relativistic gravity mediated entanglement protocol using superpositions of rotational energies},
  author = {Gerard Higgins and Andrea Di Biagio and Marios Christodoulou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.02062},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, 3 pages supplemental material. Updated manuscript, accepted by Phys Rev D