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The quantum gravity-induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) protocol for testing quantum gravity using entanglement witnessing utilizes the creation of spatial quantum superpositions of two neutral, massive matter-wave interferometers kept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Martine Schut , Andrew Geraci , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

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

The Bose-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) experiment [3, 4] is a proposal for testing the quantum nature of gravity with entanglement due to Newtonian gravity. This proposal has stimulated controversy on how the entanglement due to Newtonian gravity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Yuuki Sugiyama , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

We consider the gravity field of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a quantum superposition. The gravity field then is also in a quantum superposition which is in principle observable. Hence we have ``quantum gravity'' far away from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Netanel H. Lindner , Asher Peres

Quantization of the gravity remains one of the most important, yet extremely illusive, challenges at the heart of modern physics. Any attempt to resolve this long-standing problem seems to be doomed, as the route to any direct empirical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Yusef Maleki , Alireza Maleki

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 traditional view from particle physics is that quantum gravity effects should only become detectable at extremely high energies and small length scales. Due to the significant technological challenges involved, there has been limited…

The experiment involving the entanglement of two massive particles through gravitational fields has been devised to discern the quantum attributes of gravity. In this paper, we present a scheme to extend this experiment's applicability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Chi Zhang , Fu-Wen Shu

In view of the enormous difficulties we seem to face in quantizing general relativity, we should perhaps consider the possibility that gravity is a fundamentally classical interaction. Theoretical arguments against such mixed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

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

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

The Bose et al.-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) experiment [S. Bose et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 240401 (2017); C. Marletto and V. Vedral, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 240402 (2017)] aims to prove that spacetime is nonclassical by observing entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Adrian Kent , Damián Pitalúa-García

Experiments are beginning to probe the interaction of quantum particles with gravitational fields beyond the uniform-field regime. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the gravitational field in such experiments can be written as a…

Models of quantum gravity imply a fundamental revision of our description of position and momentum that manifests in modifications of the canonical commutation relations. Experimental tests of such modifications remain an outstanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Shreya P. Kumar , Martin B. Plenio

We emphasize that a specific aspect of quantum gravity is the absence of a super-selection rule that prevents a linear superposition of different gravitational charges. As an immediate consequence, we obtain a tiny, but observable,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Z. Adunas , E. Rodriguez-Milla , D. V. Ahluwalia

Two of us recently proposed an entanglement-based witness of non-classicality, which can be applied to testing quantum effects in gravity in what is known as the Bose-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) effect. The witness is based on this idea: if a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Giuseppe Di Pietra , Vlatko Vedral , Chiara Marletto

If gravity is fundamentally quantum, any two quantum particles must get entangled with each other due to their mutual interaction through gravity. This phenomenon, dubbed gravity-mediated entanglement, has led to recent efforts of detecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Abhinove Nagarajan Seenivasan

It is believed that gravity can be considered as a quantum coherent mediator. In this study, we propose a plan to test the existence of extra dimensions using the Quantum Gravity Induced Entanglement of Masses (QGEM) experiment. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Shuai Feng , Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu

Aim of this work is to calculate explicitly the result of the experiment of superposition of a mirror in the Michelson photon cavities interferometric device proposed by Marshall, Simon, Penrose and Bownmeester, as expected within a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-01 Filippo Maimone , Giovanni Scelza , Adele Naddeo , Vinicio Pelino

Observing spatial entanglement in the Bose-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) experiment would demonstrate the existence of non-classical properties of the gravitational field. We show that the special relativistic invariance of the linear regime of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Antonia Weber , Vlatko Vedral