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When two particles interact primarily through gravity and follow the laws of quantum mechanics, the generation of entanglement is considered a hallmark of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction. However, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Giovanni Spaventa , Ludovico Lami , Martin B. Plenio

The interface between quantum theory and gravity represents still uncharted territory. Recently, some works suggested promising alternative approaches aimed at witnessing quantum features to test the fundamental nature of gravity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Marta Maria Marchese , Martin Plávala , Matthias Kleinmann , Stefan Nimmrichter

Understanding the observer-dependent nature of quantum entanglement has been a central question in relativistic quantum information. In this paper we will review key results on relativistic entanglement in flat and curved spacetime and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paul M. Alsing , Ivette Fuentes

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

The gravity-mediated entanglement experiments employ concepts from quantum information to argue that if entanglement due to gravitational interaction is observed, then gravity cannot be described by a classical system. However, the proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Martin Plávala

Evidencing the quantum nature of gravity through the entanglement of two masses has recently been proposed. Proposals using qubits to witness this entanglement can afford to bring two masses close enough so that the complete 1/r interaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Bin Yi , Urbasi Sinha , Dipankar Home , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

This paper points out the importance of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction with matter in a linearized theory of quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses (QGEM). We will show how the quantum interaction entangles the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-03 Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar , Martine Schut , Marko Toroš

The combination of different quantum systems may allow the exploration of the distinctive features of each system for the investigation of fundamental phenomena as well as for quantum technologies. In this work we consider a setup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 C. Corrêa , A. Vidiella-Barranco

We describe a scheme showing signatures of macroscopic optomechanical entanglement generated by radiation pressure in a cavity system with a massive movable mirror. The system we consider reveals genuine multipartite entanglement. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Paternostro , D. Vitali , S. Gigan , M. S. Kim , C. Brukner , J. Eisert , M. Aspelmeyer

We propose to explore the quantum nature of gravity using the correlation of light between two optomechanical cavities, and the quantumness of the correlation is witnessed by squeezing. As long as the gravity between the end mirrors of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov , Huan Yang , Animesh Datta

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

In order to detect the quantum nature of gravity, the quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses(QGEM) has been proposed both in flat and curved spacetime. In this paper we propose an analogous QGEM protocol using photons produced in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi Zhang

Stationary entanglement between the motion of macroscopic objects and light is a long-standing goal of quantum optomechanics, with implications for both fundamental tests of quantum physics and emerging quantum technologies. We report the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Q. Deplano , A. Pontin , F. Marino , F. Marin

Recently a theoretical and an experimental protocol known as quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) has been proposed to test the quantum nature of gravity using two mesoscopic masses each placed in a superposition of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jules Tilly , Ryan J. Marshman , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

We present a simple calculation leading to the quantum gravitationally-induced decoherence of a spatial superposition of a massive object in the linear coupling regime. The point of this calculation is to illustrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Vlatko Vedral

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

We propose a simple method to generate quantum entanglement between two macroscopic mechanical resonators in a two-cavity optomechanical system. This entanglement is induced by the radiation pressure of a single photon hopping between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Jie-Qiao Liao , Qin-Qin Wu , Franco Nori

Recently proposed ``table-top tests of quantum gravity'' involve creating, separating and recombining superpositions of masses at non-relativistic speeds. The general expectation is that these generate superpositions of gravitational fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-03 Adrian Kent

The search for experimental demonstrations of the quantum behavior of macroscopic mechanical resonators is a fastly growing field of investigation and recent results suggest that the generation of quantum states of resonators with a mass at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 C. Genes , A. Mari , D. Vitali , P. Tombesi

Observation time is the key parameter for improving the precision of measurements of gravitational quantum states of particles levitating above a reflecting surface. We propose a new method of long confinement in such states of atoms,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-16 V. V. Nesvizhevsky , F. Nez , S. A. Vasiliev , E. Widmann , P. Crivelli , S. Reynaud , A. Yu. Voronin