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A promising route to testing quantum gravity in the laboratory is to look for gravitationally-induced entanglement (GIE) between two or more quantum matter systems. Proposals for such tests have principally used microsolid systems, with…

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Table-top tests of quantum gravity (QG) have long been thought to be practically impossible. However, remarkably, due to rapid progress in quantum information science (QIS), such tests may soon be achievable. Here, we uncover an exciting…

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A recently proposed experimental protocol for Quantum Gravity induced Entanglement of Masses (QGEM) requires in principle realizable, but still very ambitious, set of parameters in matter-wave interferometry. Motivated by easing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Thomas W. van de Kamp , Ryan J. Marshman , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

The search for a theory of quantum gravity is the most fundamental problem in all of theoretical physics, but there are as yet no experimental results at all to guide this endeavor. What seems to be needed is a pragmatic way to test if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-23 Johan Hansson , Stephane Francois

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

Quantum information concepts and quantum technologies have opened the prospect to probe quantum gravity in table-top experiments. Many proposals rely on witnessing entanglement generation as a means to probe whether gravity is a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Konstantin Beyer , M. S. Kim , Igor Pikovski

Understanding physical phenomena at the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains a major challenge in modern physics. While various experimental approaches have been proposed to probe quantum systems in curved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Eyuri Wakakuwa

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

Theories of quantum gravity based on the holographic principle predict the existence of quantum fluctuations of distance measurements that accumulate and exhibit correlations over macroscopic distances. This paper models an expected signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-19 Sander M Vermeulen , Lorenzo Aiello , Aldo Ejlli , William L Griffiths , Alasdair L James , Katherine L Dooley , Hartmut Grote

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

Finding a feasible scheme for testing the quantum mechanical nature of the gravitational interaction has been attracting an increasing level of attention. Gravity mediated entanglement generation so far appears to be the key ingredient for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Onur Hosten

Conventionally, experiments probing the quantum nature of gravity were thought to be prohibitive due to the extremely high energy scales involved. However, recent and rapid advances at the intersection of quantum information and gravity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Ashmeet Singh

Precision interferometry with quantum states has emerged as an essential tool for experimentally answering fundamental questions in physics. Optical quantum interferometers are of particular interest due to mature methods for generating and…

The unification of quantum theory and the general theory of relativity - describing gravity, is one of the most important challenges in science. Einstein's general theory of relativity is based on the principle of equivalence, and has been…

We propose a thought experiment, based on a mechanism that is reminiscent of Cavendish's torsion balance, to investigate the possible quantum nature of the gravitational field generated by the quantum superposition state of a massive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Matteo Carlesso , Mauro Paternostro , Hendrik Ulbricht , Angelo Bassi

Modern, state of the art nanomechanical devices are capable of creating spatial superpositions that are massive enough to begin to experimentally access the quantum to classical crossover, and thus force us to consider the possible ways in…

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When a massive quantum body is put into a spatial superposition, it is of interest to consider the quantum aspects of the gravitational field sourced by the body. We argue that in order to understand how the body may become entangled with…

Christodoulou and Rovelli (CR) [1] have argued that a Bose et al.-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) experiment that confirmed the quantum nature of gravity would give laboratory evidence for a quantum superposition of spacetime geometries created in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-03 Adrian Kent

A defining signature of classical systems is "in principle measurability" without disturbance: a feature manifestly violated by quantum systems. We describe a multi-interferometer experimental setup that can, in principle, reveal the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Farhan Hanif , Debarshi Das , Jonathan Halliwell , Dipankar Home , Anupam Mazumdar , Hendrik Ulbricht , Sougato Bose

It has long been thought that observing distinctive traces of quantum gravity in a laboratory setting is effectively impossible, since gravity is so much weaker than all the other familiar forces in particle physics. But the quantum gravity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Nick Huggett , Niels Linnemann , Mike Schneider