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We formulate the classical polarization theory for light by using entanglement analysis. We demonstrate a route to a systematic and consistent measure of ordinary light polarization that extends automatically to a new understanding of the…

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In order to show that the graviton is a quantum entity an experiment is proposed that can show that quantum entanglement is produced by means of an exchange of gravitons. For this to be possible, one has to be able to witness the…

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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

We employ linearized quantum gravity to study gravitational redshift of photons in the context of relativistic and quantum physics, where photons interact in flat spacetime with a classical massive body via graviton exchange. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Alessio Lapponi , Alessandro Ferreri , David Edward Bruschi

It is likely that the holographic principle will be a consequence of the would be theory of quantum gravity. Thus, it is interesting to try to go in the opposite direction: can the holographic principle fix the gravitational interaction? It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Canfora , G. Vilasi

When gravity is quantized, there inevitably exist quantum gravitational vacuum fluctuations which induce quadrupole moments in gravitationally polarizable objects and produce a quantum correction to the classical Newtonian interaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-04 Puxun Wu , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

In the light of Newton-Wigner-Wightman theorem of localizability question, we have proposed before a typical generation mechanism of effective mass for photons to be localized in the form of polaritons owing to photon-media interactions. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Izumi Ojima , Hayato Saigo

The quantum theory of gravity is considered based on the assumption that gravitational interaction occurs by means of the vector field of the Planck mass. Gravitational emission is considered as a process of the decay of proton into some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri Khokhlov

Vacuum polarization in QED in a background gravitational field induces interactions which {\it effectively} modify the classical picture of light rays, as the null geodesics of spacetime. These interactions violate the strong equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Ahmadi , M. Nouri-Zonoz

Gravitons are the quantum counterparts of gravitational waves in low-energy theories of gravity. Using Feynman rules one can compute scattering amplitudes describing the interaction between gravitons and other fields. Here, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Nicola Bartolo , Ahmad Hoseinpour , Giorgio Orlando , Sabino Matarrese , Moslem Zarei

Partial polarization is the manifestation of the correlation between two mutually orthogonal transverse field components associated with a light beam. We show both theoretically and experimentally that the origin of this correlation can be…

Over the past century, a large community within theoretical physics has been seeking a unified framework for quantum gravity. Yet, to date, there is still no experimental evidence of any non-classical features of gravity. While traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Stefan Aimet , Hadrien Chevalier , M. S. Kim

The deflection of light in the gravitational field of the Sun is one of the most fundamental consequences for general relativity as well as one of its classical tests first performed by Eddington a century ago. However, despite its center…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-13 Dripto Biswas , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar , Marko Toroš

The interactions of gravitons with matter are calculated in parallel with the familiar photon case. It is shown that graviton scattering amplitudes can be factorized into a product of familiar electromagnetic forms, and cross sections for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Barry R. Holstein

The nature of superluminal photon propagation in the gravitational field describing radiation from a time-dependent, isolated source (the Bondi-Sachs metric) is considered in an effective theory which includes interactions which violate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Shore

We comprehensively review the quantum theory of the polarization properties of light. In classical optics, these traits are characterized by the Stokes parameters, which can be geometrically interpreted using the Poincar\'e sphere.…

The differential cross section for gravitational photon-photon scattering calculated in Perturbative Quantum Gravity is shown to depend on the degree of polarization entanglement of the two photons. The interaction between photons in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Dennis Rätzel , Martin Wilkens , Ralf Menzel

Classical optics can be used to efficiently implement certain quantum information processing tasks with a high degree of control, for example, one-dimensional quantum walks through the space of orbital angular momentum of light directed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Sandeep K. Goyal , Filippus S. Roux , Andrew Forbes , Thomas Konrad

Exact stationary solutions of the wave equation are obtained to describe the interaction between magnetic moment of elementary particle and circularly polarized photons. The obtained solutions substantially modify the conventional model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 O. V. Kibis

We demonstrate in theory and experiment the strict equivalence between nonclassical polarization and the entanglement of indistinguishable photons, thereby unifying these two phenomena that appear dissimilar at first sight. This allows us…