Aziz and Howl's Gravity-Induced Entanglement Channel is Essentially Classical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
2026-04-20 v1
Abstract
Aziz and Howl argued that a classical gravitational field can generate quantum entanglement through a quantum-field-theoretic channel mediated by virtual matter propagation. However, their claimed channel is more naturally and accurately understood as semiclassical wavepacket motion in an external gravitational field, rather than as a distinctively quantum-field-theoretic entangling effect. Moreover, the result of their perturbative computation is incorrectly magnified: they selected a discontinuous wavefunction with infinite kinetic energy as the initial state and simultaneously treated it as stationary. Once a correct treatment using Gaussian wavepacket is adapted, the resulting effect will be negligibly small.
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@article{arxiv.2604.16276,
title = {Aziz and Howl's Gravity-Induced Entanglement Channel is Essentially Classical Mechanics},
author = {Hanyu Xue and Ziqian Tang and Chen Yang and Zizhao Han and Zikuan Kan and Yulong Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16276},
year = {2026}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures