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The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to the use of quantum information methods for investigating the interface between quantum theory and gravity. To this end, we discuss the basic principles of two current research streams…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Bruna Sahdo , Natália Salomé Móller

Combining gravity with quantum mechanics remains one of the biggest challenges of physics. In the past years, experiments with opto-mechanical systems have been proposed that may give indirect clues about the quantum nature of gravity. In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yue Ma , Thomas Guff , Gavin Morley , Igor Pikovski , M. S. Kim

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 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

An elementary prediction of the quantization of the gravitational field is that the Newtonian interaction can entangle pairs of massive objects. Conversely, in models of gravity in which the field is not quantized, the gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Giuseppe Fabiano , Tomohiro Fujita , Akira Matsumura , Daniel Carney

Quantum entanglement provides a novel way to test short distance physics in the non-relativistic regime. We will provide a protocol to {\it potentially} test new physics by bringing two charged massive particle interferometers adjacent to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Peter F. Barker , Sougato Bose , Ryan J. Marshman , Anupam Mazumdar

We propose a thought experiment to detect low-energy Quantum Gravity phenomena using Quantum Optical Information Technologies. Gravitational field perturbations, such as gravitational waves and quantum gravity fluctuations, decohere the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-15 Fabrizio Tamburini

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

While most fundamental interactions in nature are known to be mediated by quantized fields, the possibility has been raised that gravity may behave differently. Making this concept precise enough to test requires consistent models. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Daniel Carney , Jacob M. Taylor

Once again, dispute has arisen over the interpretation of proposed quantum information theory experiments to probe the quantum nature of gravity by testing for gravitationally induced entanglement (GIE) between two spatially separated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Mike D. Schneider , Nick Huggett , Niels Linnemann

We investigate entanglement generation between two pulses through the gravitational interaction in the framework of linearized quantum gravity. Different from the earlier suggestions that two massive particles can be entangled through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

To test the quantum nature of gravity in a lab requires witnessing the entanglement between the two test masses (nano-crystals) solely due to the gravitational interaction kept at a distance in a spatial superposition. The protocol is known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Martine Schut , Alexey Grinin , Andrew Dana , Sougato Bose , Andrew Geraci , Anupam Mazumdar

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

Establishing quantum gravity theory remains one of the major challenges in modern physics, as the lack of experimental evidence makes it difficult to explore. In response to this challenge, proposals to test quantum entanglement induced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Yuka Shiomatsu , Youka Kaku , Akira Matsumura , Tomohiro Fujita

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

We propose relativistic tests of quantum gravity using the gravitational self-interaction of photons in a cavity. We demonstrate that this interaction results in a number of quantum gravitational signatures in the quantum state of the light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Zain Mehdi , Joseph J. Hope , Simon A. Haine

The controlled interaction between a single, trapped, laser-driven atom and the mode of a high-finesse optical cavity allows for the generation of temporally separated, entangled light pulses. Entanglement between the photon-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Vitali , Priscilla Canizares , Juergen Eschner , Giovanna Morigi

Quantum entanglement, as one of the fundamental concepts in quantum mechanics, has garnered significant attention over the past few decades for its extraordinary nonlocality. With the advancement of quantum technology, quantum entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi Zhang

We investigate the interplay between quantum theory and gravity by exploring gravitational lensing and Einstein ring images in a weak gravitational field induced by a mass source in spatial quantum superposition. We analyze a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Youka Kaku , Yasusada Nambu

Experiments have recently been proposed testing whether quantum gravitational interactions generate entanglement between adjacent masses in position superposition states. We propose potentially less challenging experiments that test quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-03 Adrian Kent