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It has been suggested that the nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation might approximate the coupling of quantum mechanics with gravitation, particularly in the context of the M{\o}ller-Rosenfeld semiclassical theory. Numerical results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. R. van Meter

The Schr\"odinger-Newton equation aims at describing the dynamics of massive quantum systems subject to the gravitational self-interaction. As a deterministic nonlinear quantum wave equation, it is generally believed to conflict with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Julia Osęka-Lenart , Marcin Płodzień , Maciej Lewenstein , Michał Eckstein

We derive the effect of the Schr\"odinger--Newton equation, which can be considered as a non-relativistic limit of classical gravity, for a composite quantum system in the regime of high energies. Such meson-antimeson systems exhibit very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 André Großardt , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Semiclassical gravity, in which a classical spacetime is sourced by the quantum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor, is a standard framework for describing the gravitational interaction of quantum matter. In the nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Hollis Williams

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a prospective semiclassical alternative to a quantized theory of gravity, predicts a gravitational self-force between the two trajectories corresponding to the two z-spin eigenvalues for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 André Großardt

We incorporate non-local gravitational self-energy, motivated by string-inspired T-duality, into the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation. In this framework spacetime has an intrinsic non-locality, rendering the standard linear superposition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Kimet Jusufi , Douglas Singleton , Francisco S. N. Lobo

No experimental evidence exists, to date, whether or not the gravitational field must be quantised. Theoretical arguments in favour of quantisation are inconclusive. The most straightforward alternative to quantum gravity, a coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 André Großardt

The Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a theoretical framework connecting quantum mechanics with classical gravity, predicts that gravity may induce measurable deviations in low-frequency mechanical systems-an intriguing hypothesis at the…

The Schr\"odinger-Newton model describes self-gravitating quantum particles, and it is often cited to explain the gravitational collapse of the wave function and the localization of macroscopic objects. However, this model is completely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 David Brizuela , Albert Duran-Cabacés

The evolution of quantum states influenced by semiclassical gravity is distinct from that in quantum gravity theory due to the presence of a state-dependent gravitational potential. This state-dependent potential introduces nonlinearity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yubao Liu , Wenjie Zhong , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma

The Schr\"odinger-Newton (SN) equation introduces a nonlinear self-gravitational term to the standard Schr\"odinger equation, offering a paradigmatic model for semiclassical gravity. However, the small deviations it predicts from standard…

A relativistic version of the Schr{\"o}dinger-Newton equation is analyzed within the recently proposed Grave de Peralta approach [L. Grave de Peralta, {\em Results Phys.} {\bf 18} (2020) 103318], which include relativistic effects by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Luis A. Poveda , Luis Grave de Peralta , Arquimedes Ruiz-Columbié

Based on the assumption that the standard Schr\"odinger equation becomes gravitationally modified for massive macroscopic objects, two independent proposals has survived from the nineteen-eighties. The Schr\"odinger--Newton equation (1984)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Lajos Diósi

There are fundamental reasons as to why there should exist a reformulation of quantum mechanics which does not refer to a classical spacetime manifold. It follows as a consequence that quantum mechanics as we know it is a limiting case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. P. Singh

In this note we show that Newton-Schr\"odinger Equations (NSEs) [arXiv:1210.0457 and references therein] do not follow from general relativity (GR) and quantum field theory (QFT) by way of two considerations: 1) Taking the nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-18 C. Anastopoulos , B. L. Hu

We present a detailed derivation of a model to study effects of self-gravitation from semi-classical gravity, described by the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, employing spin superposition states in inhomogeneous magnetic fields, as proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-16 André Großardt

A detailed review is given of the semiclassical approximation to quantum gravity in the canonical framework. This includes in particular the derivation of the functional Schr\"odinger equation and a discussion of semiclassical time as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Kiefer

The Wheeler -- DeWitt equation was proposed 50 years ago and until now it is the cornerstone of most approaches to quantization of gravity. One can find in the literature the opinion that the Wheeler -- DeWitt equation is even more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-08 T. P. Shestakova

We show that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger wave equation can reproduce all the features of linear quantum mechanics. This nonlinear wave equation is obtained by exploring, in a uniform language, the transition from fully classical theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Chris D. Richardson , Peter Schlagheck , John Martin , Nicolas Vandewalle , Thierry Bastin

Bose et al. and Marletto and Vedral proposed an experiment to test whether gravity can induce entanglement between massive systems, arguing that the capacity to do so would imply the quantum nature of gravity. In this work, a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ward Struyve
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