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Massive objects in spatial superposition may provide insights into the interplay between quantum mechanics and gravity. Cold atomic interferometers offer a promising platform due to extended matter-wave coherence times and precise…

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In summer 1999 an experiment at ILL, Grenoble was conducted. So-called ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) were trapped in the vertical direction between the Fermi-potential of a smooth mirror below and the gravitational potential of the earth above…

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Today, people are looking forward to get an awesome computational power. This kind of desire can be answered by quantum computing. By adopting quantum mechanics theory, it can generate a very fast computation result. As known, quantum…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-18 A. B. Mutiara , R. Refianti , J. S. K. Karamoy

Techniques of Atom trapping and laser cooling have proved to be very important tools in probing many aspects of fundamental physics. In this talk I wish to present ideas on how they may used to settle certain issues in the foundational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. D. Hari Dass

Recently, table-top experiments involving massive quantum systems have been proposed to test the interface of quantum theory and gravity. In particular, the crucial point of the debate is whether it is possible to conclude anything on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Thomas D. Galley , Flaminia Giacomini , John H. Selby

We describe the Quantum Test of the Equivalence principle and Space Time (QTEST), a concept for an atom interferometry mission on the International Space Station (ISS). The primary science objective of the mission is a test of Einstein's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Jason Williams , Sheng-wey Chiow , Holger Mueller , Nan Yu

Gravitational radiation from known astrophysical sources is conventionally treated classically. This treatment corresponds, implicitly, to the hypothesis that a particular class of quantum-mechanical states -- the so-called coherent states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-19 Sreenath K. Manikandan , Frank Wilczek

This paper points out the importance of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction with matter in a linearized theory of quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses (QGEM). We will show how the quantum interaction entangles the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-03 Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar , Martine Schut , Marko Toroš

The gravitational wave observations of colliding black holes have opened a new window into the unexplored extreme gravity sector of physics, where the gravitational fields are immensely strong, non-linear, and dynamical. 10 binary black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

We review the status of recent investigations on validating the gauge-gravity duality conjecture through numerical simulations of strongly coupled maximally supersymmetric thermal gauge theories. In the simplest setting, the gauge-gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-12 Anosh Joseph

A field, which mediates entanglement between two quantum systems, must be of quantum nature. Attempts to witness this way quantumlike features of the gravitational field with tabletop experiments are actively studied recently, in particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Massimo Cerdonio , Giovanni Carugno

Cold-atom interferometry is a powerful tool for high-precision measurements of the quantum properties of atoms, many-body interactions and gravity. Further enhancement of sensitivity and reduction of complexity of these devices are crucial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 Jovana Petrovic , Ivan Herrera , Pietro Lombardi , Francesco S. Cataliotti

The ability to create and harness entanglement is crucial to the fields of quantum sensing and simulation, and ultracold atom-cavity systems offer pristine platforms for this undertaking. Here, we present a method for creating and…

Gauge theories describe the fundamental forces in the standard model of particle physics and play an important role in condensed matter physics. The constituents of gauge theories, for example charged matter and electric gauge field, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Julius Mildenberger , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Jad C. Halimeh , Zhang Jiang , Philipp Hauke

An increasingly popular approach to quantum gravity rests on the idea that gravity (and maybe electromagnetism and the other gauge fields) might be an 'emergent phenomenon', in the sense of representing a collective behaviour resulting from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 G. Jannes

The interface between quantum theory and gravity represents still uncharted territory. Recently, some works suggested promising alternative approaches aimed at witnessing quantum features to test the fundamental nature of gravity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Marta Maria Marchese , Martin Plávala , Matthias Kleinmann , Stefan Nimmrichter

Improved control of the motional and internal quantum states of ultracold neutral atoms and ions has opened intriguing possibilities for quantum simulation and quantum computation. Many-body effects have been explored with hundreds of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-08-31 Christoph Zipkes , Stefan Palzer , Carlo Sias , Michael Köhl

There is an enormous amount of information that can be extracted from the data of a quantum gas microscope that has yet to be fully explored. The quantum gas microscope has been used to directly measure magnetic order, dynamic correlations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-27 Norm M. Tubman

The inclusion of gravitation within the framework of quantum theory remains one of the most prominent open problem in physics. To date, the absence of empirical evidence hampers conclusions regarding the fundamental nature of gravity --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Bin Yan

Recent work has shown that it may be possible to detect gravitationally induced entanglement in tabletop experiments in the not-too-distant future. However, there are at present no thoroughly developed models for this type of experiment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Jackson Yant , Miles Blencowe