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Two of us (CM and VV) recently showed how the quantum character of a physical system, in particular the gravitational field, can in principle be witnessed without directly measuring observables of that system, solely by its ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 C. Marletto , V. Vedral , D. Deutsch

We consider the nonunitary quantum dynamics of neutral massless scalar particles used to model photons around a massive gravitational lens. The gravitational interaction between the lensing mass and asymptotically free particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Charles H. -T. Wang , Elliott Mansfield , Teodora Oniga

Witnessing quantum effects in the gravitational field is found to be exceptionally difficult in practice due to lack of empirical evidence. Hence, a debate is going on among physicists whether gravity has a quantum domain or not. There had…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Manabputra , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

A satisfactory theory of quantum gravity may necessitate a drastic modification of our perception of space-time, by giving it a foamy structure at distances comparable to the Planck length. It is argued in this essay that the experimental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-11 John. Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

We theoretically study a cavity filled with atoms, which provides the optical-mechanical interaction between the modified cavity photonic field and a movable mirror at one end. We show that the cavity field ``dresses'' these atoms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-16 H. Ian , Z. R. Gong , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

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

I discuss some theoretical ideas concerning the representation of quantum gravity as a Lorentz-symmetry-violating `medium' with non-trivial optical properties, which include a refractive index in `vacuo' and stochastic effects associated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 N. E. Mavromatos

Probing the boundary between classical and quantum mechanics has been one of the central themes in modern physics. Recently, experiments to precisely measure the force acting on milligram scale oscillators with optical cavities are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Yuta Michimura , Kentaro Komori

We provide a general quantum theory to describe the coupling of light with the motion of a dielectric object inside a high finesse optical cavity. In particular, we derive the total Hamiltonian of the system as well as a master equation…

Recent advances in cooling, control, and measurement of mechanical systems in the quantum regime have opened the possibility of the first direct observation of quantum gravity, at scales achievable in experiments. This paper gives a broad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Daniel Carney , Philip C. E. Stamp , Jacob M. Taylor

Quantum mechanics and general relativity have been extensively and independently confirmed in many experiments. However, the interplay of the two theories has never been tested: all experiments that measured the influence of gravity on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Magdalena Zych , Fabio Costa , Igor Pikovski , Timothy C. Ralph , Caslav Brukner

The paper presents a scheme to detect entanglement arising from the quantum nature of gravity between a spin qubit and photons, using Stokes parameters. One of the crucial tests of the general theory of relativity is the bending of light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Arijit Dutta , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

What gravitational field is generated by a massive quantum system in a spatial superposition? This is one of the most important questions in modern physics, and after decades of intensive theoretical and experimental research, we still do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 M. Bahrami , A. Bassi , S. McMillen , M. Paternostro , H. Ulbricht

In this manuscript, we investigate the enhancement of the transfer of quantum correlations from squeezed light to movable mirrors within an optomechanical system. This enhancement was achieved via the injection of squeezed light in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Noura Chabar , M'bark Amghar , Mohamed Amazioug , Mostafa Nassik

Investigating the quantum nature of gravity is an important issue in modern physics. Recently, studies pertaining to the quantum superposition of gravitational potential have garnered significant interest. Inspired by Mari \textit{et al.}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Yuuki Sugiyama , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Witnessing non-classicality in the gravitational field has been claimed to be practically impossible. This constitutes a deep problem, which has even lead some researchers to question whether gravity should be quantised, due to the weakness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

We quantify the stationary correlations between the optical mode and the relative mechanical mode of a ring cavity composed of a fixed mirror and two movable ones in a triangular design. The bipartite covariance matrix, is used to evaluate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Oumayma El Bir , Morad El Baz

In quantum simulations and experiments on optomechanical cavities, coherence control is a challenging issue. We propose a scheme of two coupled optomechanical cavities to enhance the intracavity entanglement. Photon hopping is employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Smail Bougouffa , Mohannad Al-Hmoud , Jabir Wali Hakami

This study investigates the quantumness of gravity under the setup of the atomic interferometry from the viewpoint of mass-energy equivalence. We evaluated interference visibility considering a particle with internal energy levels in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-16 Youka Kaku , Shin'ya Maeda , Yasusada Nambu , Yuki Osawa

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