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This report represents the response of the Intensity Frontier Quark Flavor Physics Working Group to the Snowmass charge. We summarize the current status of quark flavor physics and identify many exciting future opportunities for studying…

We study the effects of geontropic vacuum fluctuations in quantum gravity on next-generation terrestrial gravitational wave detectors. If the VZ effect proposed in Ref. [1], as modeled in Refs. [2, 3], appears in the upcoming GQuEST…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Mathew W. Bub , Yanbei Chen , Yufeng Du , Dongjun Li , Yiwen Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

In this paper, we are exploring the feasibility of observing non-classical features of gravity in a low-energy regime in a quantum optomechanical experiment. If gravity is to have an underlying quantum nature, it should hold the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Sahar Sahebdivan

The 2021 particle physics community study, known as "Snowmass 2021", has brought together particle physicists around the world to create a unified vision for the field over the next decade. One of the areas of focus is the Underground…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-19 Alvine Kamaha , Brianna Mount , Richard Schnee

In this talk I review a series of recent conceptual developments at the interface of the quantum and gravitational realms. Wherever possible, I comment on the possibility to probe the interface experimentally. It is concluded that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Ahluwalia

I consider the possibility that space experiments be used to search for quantum properties of spacetime. On the basis of recent quantum-gravity results, I argue that insight on some quantum properties of spacetime can be obtained with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Quantum gravity places important consistency conditions on low-energy effective field theory, such as the absence of global symmetries. These may have important consequences in the search for particle physics beyond the Standard Model. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-16 Patrick Draper , Isabel Garcia Garcia , Matthew Reece

Physics is living an era of unprecedented cross-fertilization among the different areas of science. In this perspective review, we discuss the manifold impact that ultracold-atom quantum technologies can have in fundamental and applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Jorge Yago Malo , Luca Lepori , Laura Gentini , Maria Luisa Chiofalo

The interferometry-based experimental tests of quantum properties of space-time which the author sketched out in a recent short Letter [Nature 398 (1999) 216] are here discussed in self-contained fashion. Besides providing detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

One of the main challenges in physics today is to merge quantum theory and the theory of general relativity into a unified framework. Various approaches towards developing such a theory of quantum gravity are pursued, but the lack of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Igor Pikovski , Michael R. Vanner , Markus Aspelmeyer , Myungshik Kim , Caslav Brukner

Proposed experiments for obtaining empirical evidence for a quantum description of gravity in a table-top setting focus on detecting quantum information signatures, such as entanglement or non-Gaussianity production, in gravitationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Thomas Strasser , Marios Christodoulou , Richard Howl , Caslav Brukner

The application of quantum theory to gravity is beset with many technical and conceptual problems. After a short tour d'horizon of recent attempts to master those problems by the introduction of new approaches, we show that the aim, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Grumiller , W. Kummer

We call attention on the fact that recent unprecedented technological achievements, in particular in the field of quantum optics, seem to open the way to new experimental tests which might be relevant both for the foundational problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 GianCarlo Ghirardi

The last decade has been the decade of nanotechnology, a length scale which is of particular interest since it is here that we see the transition from the classical to the quantum world. In this transition to the quantum regime new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-06 Lindley Winslow

After many years of development of the basic tools, quantum simulation with ultracold atoms has now reached the level of maturity where it can be used to investigate complex quantum processes. Planning of new experiments and upgrading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-13 Florian Schäfer , Takeshi Fukuhara , Seiji Sugawa , Yosuke Takasu , Yoshiro Takahashi

The unification of quantum theory and the general theory of relativity - describing gravity, is one of the most important challenges in science. Einstein's general theory of relativity is based on the principle of equivalence, and has been…

Modern, state of the art nanomechanical devices are capable of creating spatial superpositions that are massive enough to begin to experimentally access the quantum to classical crossover, and thus force us to consider the possible ways in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Jasper van Wezel , Tjerk H. Oosterkamp

In this brief paper, we show that atom interferometer experiments such as MAGIS, AION or AEDGE have the potential to not only probe very light dark matter models, but they will also probe quantum gravity. We show that the linear coupling of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-04 Xavier Calmet , Nathaniel Sherrill

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