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We study the derivation of the effective equation of motion for a pointlike particle in the framework of quantum gravity. Just like the geodesic motion of a classical particle is a consequence of classical field theory coupled to general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-01 Francisco Pipa , Nikola Paunkovic , Marko Vojinovic

We describe a complete method for a precise study of gravitational interaction between two nearby quantum masses. Since the displacements of these masses are much smaller than the initial separation between their centers, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Ankit Kumar , Tanjung Krisnanda , P. Arumugam , Tomasz Paterek

Understanding the phenomenon of quantum superposition of gravitational fields induced by massive quantum particles is an important starting point for quantum gravity. The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Yuuki Sugiyama , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Understanding gravity in the framework of quantum mechanics is one of the great challenges in modern physics. Along this line, a prime question is to find whether gravity is a quantum entity subject to the rules of quantum mechanics. It is…

The principle of equivalence postulating that an acceleration is indistinguishable from gravity by any experiment, is valid within families of particles having the same passive gravitational to inertial mass ratio $m_p/m_i$. Presently…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Clovis Jacinto de Matos , Murat Özer , Grzegorz Lukasz Izworsk

Moving cavities promise to be a suitable system for relativistic quantum information processing. It has been shown that an inertial and a uniformly accelerated one-dimensional cavity can become entangled by letting an atom emit an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bartosz Regula , Antony R. Lee , Andrzej Dragan , Ivette Fuentes

The unification of gravity and quantum mechanics remains one of the most profound open questions in science. With recent advances in quantum technology, an experimental idea first proposed by Richard Feynman is now regarded as a promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Joseph Aziz , Richard Howl

Investigating the quantum nature of gravity is an important issue in modern physics. Recently, studies pertaining to the quantum superposition of gravitational potential have garnered significant interest. Inspired by Mari \textit{et al.}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Yuuki Sugiyama , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

We explore the interplay between the equivalence principle and a generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations known as extended uncertainty principle, that comprises the effects of spacetime curvature at large distances.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Luciano Petruzziello

The two surprising features of gravity are (a) the principle of equivalence and (b) the connection between gravity and thermodynamics. Using principle of equivalence and special relativity in the {\it local inertial frame}, one could obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Padmanabhan

Quantum walk is a synonym for multi-path interference and faster spread of a particle in a superposition of position space. We study the effects of a quantum mechanical interaction modeled to mimic quantum mechanical gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Himanshu Badhani , C. M. Chandrashekar

We argue that if the Newtonian gravitational field of a body can mediate entanglement with another body, then it should also be possible for the body producing the Newtonian field to entangle directly with on-shell gravitons. Our arguments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Daine L. Danielson , Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

There have been various claims that the Equivalence Principle, as originally formulated by Einstein, presents several difficulties when extended to the quantum domain, even in the regime of weak gravity. Here we point out that by following…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 C. Marletto , V. Vedral

We argue that Hartle-Hawking states in the Regge quantum gravity model generically contain non-trivial entanglement between gravity and matter fields. Generic impossibility to talk about "matter in a point of space" is in line with the idea…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-05 Nikola Paunković , Marko Vojinović

A quantum particle moving in a gravitational field may penetrate the classically forbidden region of the gravitational potential. This raises the question of whether the time of flight of a quantum particle in a gravitational field might…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. W. Davies

In non-gravitational quantum field theory, the entanglement entropy across a surface depends on the short-distance regularization. Quantum gravity should not require such regularization, and it's been conjectured that the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-01 Yasha Neiman

Nature allows one to explore a manifold of remarkable quantum effects. Most prominently, quantum entanglement can be observed in many-particle systems, between multiple quantized fields, and in hybrid combinations thereof. This diversity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jan Sperling , Elizabeth Agudelo

The Equivalence Principle (EP) is at the heart of General Relativity (GR), tested in many aspects. It is often used to discuss qualitatively the influence of gravity on physical phenomena. But can this be made more precise? We compare clock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 Peter C. Aichelburg

We study the full entanglement dynamics of two uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors with no direct interaction in between but each coupled to a common quantum field and moving back-to-back in the field vacuum. For two detectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We show that if one starts with a Universe with some matter and a cosmological constant, then quantum mechanics naturally induces an attractive gravitational potential and an effective Newton's coupling. Thus gravity is an emergent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Saurya Das , Sourav Sur