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I propose to formalize quantum theories as topological quantum field theories in a generalized sense, associating state spaces with boundaries of arbitrary (and possibly finite) regions of space-time. I further propose to obtain such…

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Quantum theory and general relativity are about one century old. At present, they are considered the best available explanations of physical reality, and they have been so far corroborated by all experiments realised so far. Nonetheless,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

One of the major difficulties of modern science underlies at the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Different approaches towards such theory have been proposed. Noncommutative theories serve as the root of almost all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Sanjib Dey , Anha Bhat , Davood Momeni , Mir Faizal , Ahmed Farag Ali , Tarun Kumar Dey , Atikur Rehman

A recent paper by Aziz and Howl (Nature 2025) argues that, once quantum matter is described at the level of quantum field theory and coupled to a classical gravitational field, higher order processes can generate entanglement between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Mikołaj Sienicki , Krzysztof Sienicki

If gravity is fundamentally quantum, any two quantum particles must get entangled with each other due to their mutual interaction through gravity. This phenomenon, dubbed gravity-mediated entanglement, has led to recent efforts of detecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Abhinove Nagarajan Seenivasan

Whether gravity is quantized remains an open question. To shed light on this problem, various Gedankenexperiments have been proposed. One popular example is an interference experiment with a massive system that interacts gravitationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Erik Rydving , Erik Aurell , Igor Pikovski

In my lectures I will deal with three seemingly unrelated problems: i) to what extent is general relativity exceptional among metric gravity theories? ii) is it possible to define gravitational energy density applying field-theory approach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Leszek M. Sokołowski

We consider gravity from the quantum field theory point of view and introduce a natural way of coupling gravity to matter by following the gauge principle for particle interactions. The energy-momentum tensor for the matter fields is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Yuan K. Ha

In this contribution we deal with several issues one encounters when trying to couple quantum matter to classical gravitational fields. We start with a general background discussion and then move on to two more technical sections. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Domenico Giulini , André Großardt , Philip K. Schwartz

The two-dimensional theory of gravity describing a graviton-dilaton system is considered. The graviton-dilaton coupling can be fixed such that the quantum theory remains free of the conformal anomaly for any conformal dimension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 T. T. Burwick , A. H. Chamseddine

The different roles and natures of spacetime appearing in a quantum field theory and in classical physics are analyzed implying that a quantum theory of gravitation is not necessarily a quantum theory of curved spacetime. Developing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Wiesendanger

We present a gravitational quantum dynamics theory that combines quantum field theory for particle dynamics in space-time with classical Einstein's general relativity in a non-Riemannian Finsler space. This approach is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Ivano Tavernelli

One of the major issues confronting theoretical physics is finding a quantum theory of gravity and a resolution to the cosmological constant problem. It is believed that a true quantum theory of gravity will lead to a solution to the this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-09-05 Edward Tetteh-Lartey

We develop a quantum field-theoretic model of gravitationally induced entanglement (GIE) between two massive objects in spatial superposition. The masses are described as excitations of a scalar field in an external harmonic potential,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Jackson Yant , Miles Blencowe

The observed accelerated expansion of the universe is an indication that somehow, in some conditions, gravity may become a repulsive interaction. The very concept of discrete interactions, compatible with General Relativity as an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-07 Manoelito M de Souza

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

The study of the gravitational field produced by a spatially non-local, superposed quantum state of a massive particle is a thrilling area of modern physics. One question to be answered is whether the gravitational field behaves as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Rémi Ligez , R. B. MacKenzie , Victor Massart , M. B. Paranjape , U. A. Yajnik

We explore the new physics phenomena of gravidynamics governed by the inhomogeneous spin gauge symmetry based on the gravitational quantum field theory. Such a gravidynamics enables us to derive the generalized Einstein equation and an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 Yuan-Kun Gao , Da Huang , Yong-Liang Ma , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

Inspired by our recent works on information paradox in black holes, which exploit various foundational intricacies of quantum mechanics, here we propose a novel connection between the spacetime geometry and quantum entanglement of matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-29 Sujoy K. Modak