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Ever since gravity-induced entanglement (GIE) experiments have been proposed as a witness of the quantum nature of gravity, more and more theories of classical gravity coupled to quantum matter have been shown to predict GIE, despite the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Andrea Di Biagio

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

In quantum gauge theory of gravity, the gravitational field is represented by gravitational gauge field. The field strength of gravitational gauge field has both gravitational electric component and gravitational magnetic component. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Ning Wu

If gravitons are super-strong interacting particles and the low-temperature graviton background exists, the basic cosmological conjecture about the Dopplerian nature of redshifts may be false. In this case, a full magnitude of cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael A. Ivanov

Observation of gravitationally induced entanglement between two massive particles can be viewed as implying the existence of the nonclassical nature of gravity. However, weak interaction in the gravitational field is extremely small so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Tianfeng Feng , Vlatko Vedral

Recently, table-top experiments involving massive quantum systems have been proposed to test the interface of quantum theory and gravity. In particular, the crucial point of the debate is whether it is possible to conclude anything on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Thomas D. Galley , Flaminia Giacomini , John H. Selby

This work is devoted to the discussion of an idea that gravitational interactions might be residual interactions of strong and electromagnetic interactions. Then, absence of the carriers of the gravitational interactions finds a natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kh. M. Beshtoev

We examine the quantum gravitational entanglement of two test masses in the context of linearized General Relativity with specific non-local interaction with matter. To accomplish this, we consider an energy-momentum tensor describing two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Anupam Mazumdar

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Hanyu Xue , Ziqian Tang , Chen Yang , Zizhao Han , Zikuan Kan , Yulong Liu

The question of whether gravity is fundamentally quantum remains one of the most profound open problems in modern physics. A recently explored approach consists in testing gravity's ability to entangle quantum systems, which requires…

Observable signatures of the quantum nature of gravity at low energies have recently emerged as a promising new research field. One prominent avenue is to test for gravitationally induced entanglement between two mesoscopic masses prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Vasileios Fragkos , Michael Kopp , Igor Pikovski

In their recent work, Nature, {\bf 646}, 813 (2025), Aziz and Howl claim that classical (unquantized) gravity can generate entanglement of quantized matter if matter is treated within quantum field theory which is, no doubt, our ultimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Lajos Diósi

We analyze the interaction between quantum matter and classical objects through a general effective channel for hybrid dynamics, subject to the fundamental constraint that no quantum correlations can be generated between the classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Tianfeng Feng , Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

The fact that gravitational environments cannot be shielded (since gravity is universal) makes them of great theoretical interest to decoherence mechanisms and to the quantum-to-classical transition. While past results seemed to indicate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Thiago H. Moreira , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

Models of quantum-classical interactions fall into two classes: those which allow the generation of quantum entanglement via a classical mediator (such as gravity), and those which do not. Marconato and Marletto have recently sought to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Michael J. W. Hall , Marcel Reginatto

The quantum nature of gravity remains experimentally unverified, despite recent proposals to probe it using tabletop experiments such as gravity-mediated entanglement schemes. In parallel, consistent formulations of classical--quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Shogo Tomizuka , Hiroki Takeda

Experiments have recently been proposed testing whether quantum gravitational interactions generate entanglement between adjacent masses in position superposition states. We propose potentially less challenging experiments that test quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-03 Adrian Kent

No experiment to date has provided evidence for quantum features of the gravitational interaction. Recently proposed tests suggest looking for the generation of quantum entanglement between massive objects as a possible route towards the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Tanjung Krisnanda , Guo Yao Tham , Mauro Paternostro , Tomasz Paterek

Gravity stands apart from other fundamental interactions in that it is locally equivalent to an accelerated frame and can be transformed away. Again it is indistinguishable from the geometry of space-time (which is an arena for all other…

General Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 C Sivaram , Kenath Arun , Kiren O , B N Sreenath

Recently, interest has increased in the entanglement of remote quantum particles through the Newtonian gravitational interaction, both from a fundamental perspective and as a test case for the quantization of gravity. Likewise,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 André Großardt