Information Content of the Gravitational Field of a Quantum Superposition
Abstract
When a massive quantum body is put into a spatial superposition, it is of interest to consider the quantum aspects of the gravitational field sourced by the body. We argue that in order to understand how the body may become entangled with other massive bodies via gravitational interactions, it must be thought of as being entangled with its own Newtonian-like gravitational field. Thus, a Newtonian-like gravitational field must be capable of carrying quantum information. Our analysis supports the view that table-top experiments testing entanglement of systems interacting via gravity do probe the quantum nature of gravity, even if no ``gravitons'' are emitted during the experiment.
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@article{arxiv.1905.04496,
title = {Information Content of the Gravitational Field of a Quantum Superposition},
author = {Alessio Belenchia and Robert M. Wald and Flaminia Giacomini and Esteban Castro-Ruiz and Časlav Brukner and Markus Aspelmeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.04496},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure. First prize essay in the Gravity Research Foundation 2019 Essays on Gravitation. To appear in IJMPD. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1807.07015