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Due to its underlying gauge structure, teleparallel gravity achieves a separation between inertial and gravitational effects. It can, in consequence, describe the isolated gravitational interaction without resorting to the equivalence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Aldrovandi , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira , K. H. Vu

The salient feature of both classical and quantum gravity is its universal and attractive character. However, less is known about the behaviour and build-up of quantum correlations when quantum systems interact via graviton exchange. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Marko Toroš , Martine Schut , Patrick Andriolo , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

General relativity differs from other forces in nature in that it can be made to disappear locally. This is the essence of the equivalence principle. In general relativity the equivalence principle is implemented using differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-14 Olaf Dreyer

If gravitational perturbations are quantized into gravitons in analogy with the electromagnetic field and photons, the resulting graviton interactions should lead to an entangling interaction between massive objects. We suggest a test of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Daniel Carney , Holger Müller , Jacob M. Taylor

It is generally assumed that any discrepancy between an object's inertial and gravitational masses, leading to a violation of the equivalence principle, arises from the nature of its internal constituents and their interactions. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Saurya Das , Mitja Fridman , Sourav Sur

I show that entanglement between two qubits can be generated if the two qubits interact with a common heat bath in thermal equilibrium, but do not interact directly with each other. In most situations the entanglement is created for a very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Braun

A four-vector field in flat space-time, satisfying a gauge-invariant set of second-order differential equations, is considered as a unified field. The model variational principle corresponds to the general covariance idea and gives rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander A. Chernitskii

Quantum entanglement is the quantum information processing resource. Thus it is of importance to understand how much of entanglement particular quantum states have, and what kinds of laws entanglement and also transformation between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Toshiyuki Shimono

The generation and control of entanglement in a quantum mechanical system is a critical element of nearly all quantum applications. Molecular systems are a promising candidate, with numerous degrees of freedom able to be targeted. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Davis M. Welakuh , Spyros Tserkis , Scott E. Smart , Prineha Narang

Why does {\bf F} equal m{\bf a} in Newton's equation of motion? How does a gravitational field produce a force? Why are inertial mass and gravitational mass the same? It appears that all three of these seemingly axiomatic foundational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard Haisch , Alfonso Rueda

Inspired by Einstein's Strong Principle of Equivalence we consider the effects of quantum mechanics to the gravity-like phenomena experienced by an observer in a uniformly accelerating motion in flat spacetime. Among other things, our model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Jarmo Mäkelä

Quantum correlations between two neighbor atoms are studied. It is assumed that one atomic system comprises a single auto-ionizing level and the other atom does not contain any auto-ionizing level. The excitation of both atoms is achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Vlasta Peřinová , Antonín Lukš , Jaromír Křepelka , Jan Peřina

This study investigates the quantumness of gravity under the setup of the atomic interferometry from the viewpoint of mass-energy equivalence. We evaluated interference visibility considering a particle with internal energy levels in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-16 Youka Kaku , Shin'ya Maeda , Yasusada Nambu , Yuki Osawa

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

The standard argument for the validity of Einstein's equivalence principle in a non-relativistic quantum context involves the application of a mass superselection rule. It is surprising that the consistency between such an important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 H. Hernandez-Coronado , E. Okon

We discuss recent progress in the study of entanglement within cosmological frameworks, focusing on both momentum and position-space approaches and also reviewing the possibility to directly extract entanglement from quantum fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo , Stefano Mancini

We develop a quantum field-theoretic model of gravitationally induced entanglement (GIE) between two massive objects in spatial superposition. The masses are described as excitations of a scalar field in an external harmonic potential,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Jackson Yant , Miles Blencowe

What gravitational field is generated by a massive quantum system in a spatial superposition? Despite decades of intensive theoretical and experimental research, we still do not know the answer. On the experimental side, the difficulty lies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Matteo Carlesso , Angelo Bassi , Mauro Paternostro , Hendrik Ulbricht

We consider an unexplored aspect of the mass equivalence principle in the quantum realm, its connection with atomic stability. We show that if the gravitational mass were different from the inertial one, a Hydrogen atom placed in a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Pedro Sancho

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