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Current models of quantum interference experiments in external gravitational fields lack a common framework: while matter-wave interferometers are commonly described using the Schr\"odinger equation with a Newtonian potential, gravitational…

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Beginning from the standard Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) formulation of general relativity we construct a tentative model of quantum gravity from the point of view of an observer with constant proper acceleration, just outside of a horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-30 Jarmo Mäkelä

A handful of recent papers has been devoted to proposals of experiments capable of testing some candidate quantum-gravity phenomena. These lecture notes emphasize those aspects that are most relevant to the questions that come to mind when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

The emission of light pulses is expected to generate gravitational waves, opening the possibility of controlling gravity in an Earthed laboratory. However, measuring the optically-driven spacetime deformations is challenging due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Riccardo Falcone , Claudio Conti

We investigate a new experimental possibility of measuring the Newtonian gravitational constant $G$ by using the weak measurement. Amplification via weak measurement is one of the interesting phenomena of quantum mechanics. In this letter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Kiyoharu Kawana , Daiki Ueda

We report on the use of radio-frequency optical atomic magnetometers for magnetic induction tomography measurements. We demonstrate the imaging of dummy targets of varying conductivities placed in the proximity of the sensor, in an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Cameron Deans , Luca Marmugi , Sarah Hussain , Ferruccio Renzoni

No experimental evidence of the quantum nature of gravity has been observed yet and a realistic setup with improved sensitivity is eagerly awaited. We find two effects, which can substantially enhance the signal of gravity-induced quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-11 Youka Kaku , Tomohiro Fujita , Akira Matsumura

Some models of quantum gravity can predict observable effects on the propagation of light: most notably an energy dependent dispersion, where the speed of light is seen to vary with the energy of the photon. As quantum gravity effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-30 U. Barres de Almeida , M. K. Daniel

Gravitomagnetic effects originates from the rotation of the source of the gravitational field and from the rotational features of the observers' frame. In recent years, gravitomagnetism has been tested by means of its impact on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-06 Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We present a theory for the estimation of a scalar or a vector magnetic field by its influence on an ensemble of trapped spin polarized atoms. The atoms interact off-resonantly with a continuous laser field, and the measurement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vivi Petersen , Lars Bojer Madsen , Klaus Molmer

We give an overview of ongoing searches for effects motivated by the study of the quantum-gravity problem. We describe in greater detail approaches which have not been covered in recent ``Quantum Gravity Phenomenology'' reviews. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Amelino-Camelia , C. Lämmerzahl , A. Macias , H. Müller

A relativistic theory of gravity like general relativity produces phenomena differing fundamentally from Newton's theory. An example, analogous to electromagnetic induction, is gravitomagnetism, or the dragging of inertial frames by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Wan Cong , Jiri Bicak , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann

Typically discussed in the context of optics, caustics are envelopes of classical trajectories (rays) where the density of states diverges, resulting in pronounced observable features such as bright points, curves, and extended networks of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-12 Maren E. Mossman , Thomas M. Bersano , Michael McNeil Forbes , Peter Engels

We explore how quantum gravity effects, manifested through the breaking of discrete symmetry responsible for both Dark Matter and Domain Walls, can have observational effects through CMB observations and gravitational waves. To illustrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-22 Stephen F. King , Rishav Roshan , Xin Wang , Graham White , Masahito Yamazaki

The role of entanglement in determining the non-classicality of a given interaction has gained significant traction over the last few years. In particular, as the basis for new experimental proposals to test the quantum nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 A. Douglas K. Plato , Dennis Rätzel , Chuanqi Wan

Quantum physics holds the promise of enabling certain tasks with better performance than possible when only classical resources are employed. The quantum phenomena present in many experiments signify nonclassical behavior, but do not always…

Recently, it is shown that, the quantum effects of matter are well described by the conformal degree of freedom of the space-time metric. On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that according to Einstein's gravity theory, gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Shojai

Recently a study of the first superposed mechanical quantum object ("machine") visible to the naked eye was published. However, as we show, it turns out that if the object would actually be observed, i.e. would interact with an optical…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Johan Hansson

This short review is intended as a colloquium-level summary, for the Snowmass 2021 process, on recent theoretical results on infrared observables in quantum gravity. We rely on simple physical arguments, most notably a random walk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Kathryn M. Zurek

We investigate possible signatures of quantum gravity which could be tested with current and future gravitational-wave (GW) observations. In particular, we analyze how quantum gravity can influence the GW luminosity distance, the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-08 Gianluca Calcagni , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Sylvain Marsat , Mairi Sakellariadou , Nicola Tamanini , Gianmassimo Tasinato