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Nanomechanical resonators are widely operated as force and mass sensors with sensitivities in the zepto-Newton and yocto-gram regime, respectively. Their accuracy, however, is usually undermined by high uncertainties in the effective mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-23 Francesco Ricci , Marc T. Cuairan , Gerard P. Conangla , Andreas W. Schell , Romain Quidant

We present a minimal model for the quantum evolution of matter under the influence of classical gravity in the Newtonian limit. Based on a continuous measurement-feedback channel that acts simultaneously on all constituent masses of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Kiran E. Khosla , Stefan Nimmrichter

The field equations of a generalized $f(R)$ type gravity model, in which there is an arbitrary coupling between matter and geometry, are obtained. The equations of motion for test particles are derived from a variational principle in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-26 T. Harko

We consider a linearized, effective quantum theory of gravitation in which gravity weakens at energies higher than ~10^-3 eV in order to accommodate the apparent smallness of the cosmological constant. Such a theory predicts departures from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Caldwell , Daniel Grin

The question whether gravitational waves are quantised or not can in principle be answered by the help of correlation measurements. If the gravitational waves are quantised and they are generated by the change of the background metrics then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 I. Lovas

The Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a theoretical framework connecting quantum mechanics with classical gravity, predicts that gravity may induce measurable deviations in low-frequency mechanical systems-an intriguing hypothesis at the…

The result of a numerical simulation of two interacting particles in the framework of Nonunitary Newtonian Gravity is presented here. Particles are held close together by a 3-d harmonic trap and interact with each other via an `electrical'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 Giovanni Scelza , Filippo Maimone , Adele Naddeo

We consider the effect of a scalar field degree of freedom on the dynamics of gravity from small to large scales. We show that the effects of modified gravity can be completely captured by the time variations of the scalar field mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Baojiu Li

No experiment to date has provided evidence for quantum features of the gravitational interaction. Recently proposed tests suggest looking for the generation of quantum entanglement between massive objects as a possible route towards the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Tanjung Krisnanda , Guo Yao Tham , Mauro Paternostro , Tomasz Paterek

Measuring the effect of gravity on antimatter is a longstanding problem in physics that has significant implications for our understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe. Here, we present a technique to measure the gravitational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Boaz Raz , Gavriel Fleurov , Roi Holtzman , Nir Davidson , Eli Sarid

We study 4d simplicial quantum gravity in the dynamical triangulation approach with a non-trivial class of measures. We find that the measure contribution plays an important role, influencing the phase diagram and the nature of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernd Bruegmann , E. Marinari

Theories of quantum gravity based on the holographic principle predict the existence of quantum fluctuations of distance measurements that accumulate and exhibit correlations over macroscopic distances. This paper models an expected signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-19 Sander M Vermeulen , Lorenzo Aiello , Aldo Ejlli , William L Griffiths , Alasdair L James , Katherine L Dooley , Hartmut Grote

This work focuses on the control and understanding of a gravitationally interacting elementary quantum system. It offers a new way of looking at gravitation based on quantum interference: an ultracold neutron, a quantum particle, as an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-13 T. Jenke , G. Cronenberg , M. Thalhammer , T. Rechberger , P. Geltenbort , H. Abele

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

We establish limitations and bounds on the transmission of quantum states between gravitationally interacting mechanical oscillators under different models of gravity. This provides benchmarks that can enable tests for quantum features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Kristian Toccacelo , Ulrik Lund Andersen , Jonatan Bohr Brask

Gravitation as a fundamental interaction that governs all phenomena at large and very small scales, but still not well understood at a quantum level, is a cardinal missing link in unification of all physical interactions. Discovery of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 V. N. Melnikov

The question of whether gravity is fundamentally quantum remains one of the most profound open problems in modern physics. A recently explored approach consists in testing gravity's ability to entangle quantum systems, which requires…

Finding solutions for better mixing in microfluidics remains an important challenge, including understanding fundamental aspects of these processes. Here we investigate the magnetic micro-convection on water and miscible magnetic fluid…

We present an extension of a previously suggested test of all modified theories of gravity that would reproduce MOND at low accelerations. In a class of models, called "dark matter emulators", gravitational waves and other particles couple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 E. O. Kahya

A model of graviton momentum transfer was constructed to investigate a conjecture that gravitons are fused photons propagating in four dimensions. The model describes gravitational attraction between two bodies, each of simplified geometric…

General Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Z R Adam