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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

We examine the quantum gravitational entanglement of two test masses in the context of linearized General Relativity with specific non-local interaction with matter. To accomplish this, we consider an energy-momentum tensor describing two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Anupam Mazumdar

Experiments witnessing the entanglement between two particles interacting only via the gravitational field have been proposed as a test whether gravity must be quantized. In the language of quantum information, a non-quantum gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. Kemal Döner , André Großardt

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

It is believed that gravity can be considered as a quantum coherent mediator. In this study, we propose a plan to test the existence of extra dimensions using the Quantum Gravity Induced Entanglement of Masses (QGEM) experiment. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Shuai Feng , Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu

Recently, experiments aimed at measuring gravity mediated entanglement (GME) using quantum information techniques have been proposed, based on the assumption that if two systems get entangled through local interactions with gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Ji Bian , Teng Liu , Pengfei Lu , Qifeng Lao , Xinxin Rao , Feng Zhu , Yang Liu , Le Luo

This paper points out the importance of the assumption of locality of physical interactions, and the concomitant necessity of propagation of an entity (in this case, off-shell quanta - virtual gravitons) between two non-relativistic test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Ryan J. Marshman , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

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

Due to the weakness of gravitational coupling, all quantum experiments up to date in which gravity plays a role utilized the field of the Earth. Since this field undergoes practically undetectable back-action from quantum particles, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Ankit Kumar

Experimental proposals for testing quantum gravity-induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) typically involve two interacting masses which are each in a spatial superposition state. Here, we propose instead a QGEM experiment with two particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Gerard Higgins , Andrea Di Biagio , Marios Christodoulou

Quantum information concepts and quantum technologies have opened the prospect to probe quantum gravity in table-top experiments. Many proposals rely on witnessing entanglement generation as a means to probe whether gravity is a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Konstantin Beyer , M. S. Kim , Igor Pikovski

The current interest in laboratory detection of entanglement mediated by gravity was sparked by an information--theoretic argument: entanglement mediated by a local field certifies that the field is not classical. Previous derivations of…

Tests of gravity-induced entanglement have been proposed as a route to probing the quantum nature of gravity, but existing schemes rely on free-fall interferometry of massive spatial superpositions, imposing severe experimental constraints.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Hollis Williams

It has long been thought that observing distinctive traces of quantum gravity in a laboratory setting is effectively impossible, since gravity is so much weaker than all the other familiar forces in particle physics. But the quantum gravity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Nick Huggett , Niels Linnemann , Mike Schneider

All existing quantum gravity proposals share the same deep problem. Their predictions are extremely hard to test in practice. Quantum effects in the gravitational field are exceptionally small, unlike those in the electromagnetic field. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

The Bose-Marletto-Vedral experiment tests a non-relativistic quantum effect due to a gravitational interaction. It has received attention because it may soon be within observational reach in the lab. We observe here that: (i) in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-24 Marios Christodoulou , Carlo Rovelli

Finding a feasible scheme for testing the quantum mechanical nature of the gravitational interaction has been attracting an increasing level of attention. Gravity mediated entanglement generation so far appears to be the key ingredient for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Onur Hosten

The purpose of this study is to calculate the entanglement measure for a bipartite system where the two subsystems interact via a central potential, and more importantly, to analyze the conceptual implication in the case of gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jianhao M. Yang

The experiment involving the entanglement of two massive particles through gravitational fields has been devised to discern the quantum attributes of gravity. In this paper, we present a scheme to extend this experiment's applicability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Chi Zhang , Fu-Wen Shu

In recent years, the quantum nature of gravity has attracted significant attention as one of the most important problems in modern physics. Here, we analyze the mechanism of gravitationally-induced entanglement from the perspective of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Hazhir Dolatkhah , Shahriar Salimi , Soroush Haseli