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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

Witnessing quantum effects in the gravitational field is found to be exceptionally difficult in practice due to lack of empirical evidence. Hence, a debate is going on among physicists whether gravity has a quantum domain or not. There had…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Manabputra , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

In a recent work we showed that the detection of the exchange of a single graviton between a massive quantum resonator and a gravitational wave can be achieved. Key to this ability are the experimental progress in preparing and measuring…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Victoria Shenderov , Mark Kanex , Thomas Beitel , Germain Tobar , Sreenath K. Manikandan , Igor Pikovski

A new gravitational-wave detector, which is devised based on quantum weak measurement amplification, is introduced and shown has the potential to significantly improve the strain sensitivity of gravitational-wave detection.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

Detections of gravitational waves (GWs) since GW150914 has gained a contemporary interest in a potential quantum-classical correspondence between GWs and hypothetical gravitons. One such correspondence theory is stochastic gravity, whereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Noah M. MacKay

The gravity-mediated entanglement experiments employ concepts from quantum information to argue that if entanglement due to gravitational interaction is observed, then gravity cannot be described by a classical system. However, the proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Martin Plávala

Proposed experiments for obtaining empirical evidence for a quantum description of gravity in a table-top setting focus on detecting quantum information signatures, such as entanglement or non-Gaussianity production, in gravitationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Thomas Strasser , Marios Christodoulou , Richard Howl , Caslav Brukner

The purpose of this study is to calculate the entanglement measure for a bipartite system where the two subsystems interact via a central potential, and more importantly, to analyze the conceptual implication in the case of gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jianhao M. Yang

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…

Intrinsic entanglement (IE) is a quantity which aims at quantifying bipartite entanglement carried by a quantum state as an optimal amount of the intrinsic information that can be extracted from the state by measurement. We investigate in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Ladislav Mišta, , Richard Tatham

This work investigates the use of linear Paul traps as quantum sensors for detecting megahertz gravitational waves. Single-ion configurations exploit graviton-photon conversion in the presence of external magnetic fields, while two-ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ryoto Takai

It is now widely believed that if the gravitational field is (perturbatively) quantum, it would entangle two massive objects (in spatial superpositions) which were otherwise unentangled to begin with. Recently, actual table-top experiments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Abhinove Nagarajan Seenivasan

We develop a formalism to calculate the response of a model gravitational wave detector to a quantized gravitational field. Coupling a detector to a quantum field induces stochastic fluctuations ("noise") in the length of the detector arm.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Maulik Parikh , Frank Wilczek , George Zahariade

Gravitational wave (GW) oscillations occur whenever there are additional tensor modes interacting with the perturbations of the metric coupled to matter. These extra modes can arise from new spin-2 fields (as in e.g. bigravity theories) or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Jose María Ezquiaga , Lavinia Heisenberg

Experiments witnessing the entanglement between two particles interacting only via the gravitational field have been proposed as a test whether gravity must be quantized. In the language of quantum information, a non-quantum gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. Kemal Döner , André Großardt

We propose a "thought technique" for detecting Gravitational Waves using Einstein-Podolski-Rosen photon Entangled States. GWs decohere the entangled photon pairs, introduce a relative rotation and de-synchronize Alice and Bob's reference…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-29 Fabrizio Tamburini , Bruce A. Bassett , Carlo Ungarelli

Gravitational wave astronomy has tremendous potential for studying extreme astrophysical phenomena and exploring fundamental physics. The waves produced by binary black hole mergers will provide a pristine environment in which to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Neil Cornish , Laura Sampson , Nico Yunes , Frans Pretorius

An interesting proposal for detecting gravitational waves involves quantum metrology of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We consider a forced modulation of the BEC trap, whose frequency matches that of an incoming continuous gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Niayesh Afshordi , Alan O. Jamison , Robert B. Mann

In order to detect the quantum nature of gravity, the quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses(QGEM) has been proposed both in flat and curved spacetime. In this paper we propose an analogous QGEM protocol using photons produced in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi Zhang

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi