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The interface between quantum theory and gravity represents still uncharted territory. Recently, some works suggested promising alternative approaches aimed at witnessing quantum features to test the fundamental nature of gravity in…

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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

What if gravity is classical? If true, a consistent co-existence of classical gravity and quantum matter requires that gravity exhibit irreducible fluctuations. These fluctuations can mediate classical correlations, but not quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Serhii Kryhin , Vivishek Sudhir

We consider the coupling of quantum fields to classical gravity in the formalism of ensembles on configuration space, a model that allows a consistent formulation of interacting classical and quantum systems. Explicit calculations show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Marcel Reginatto , Michael J. W. Hall

Experiments have recently been proposed testing whether quantum gravitational interactions generate entanglement between adjacent masses in position superposition states. We propose potentially less challenging experiments that test quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-03 Adrian Kent

It is currently believed that there is no experimental evidence on possibly quantum features of gravity or gravity-motivated modifications of quantum mechanics. Here we show that single-atom interference experi- ments achieving large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Natacha Altamirano , Paulina Corona-Ugalde , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

Due to the weakness of gravitational coupling, all quantum experiments up to date in which gravity plays a role utilized the field of the Earth. Since this field undergoes practically undetectable back-action from quantum particles, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Ankit Kumar

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

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

Gravity is specifically the attractive force between two masses separated at a distance. Is this force a derived or a fundamental interaction? We believe that all fundamental interactions are quantum in nature but a derived interaction may…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-01 Yuan K. Ha

Ever since gravity-induced entanglement (GIE) experiments have been proposed as a witness of the quantum nature of gravity, more and more theories of classical gravity coupled to quantum matter have been shown to predict GIE, despite the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Andrea Di Biagio

All existing quantum gravity proposals share the same deep problem. Their predictions are extremely hard to test in practice. Quantum effects in the gravitational field are exceptionally small, unlike those in the electromagnetic field. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

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

An experimental test of quantum effects in gravity has recently been proposed, where the ability of the gravitational field to entangle two masses is used as a witness of its quantum nature. The key idea is that if gravity can generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

A new direction to understand gravity has recently been explored by considering classical gravity to be a derived interaction from an underlying theory. This underlying theory would involve new degrees of freedom at a deeper level and it…

General Physics · Physics 2014-03-10 Yuan K. Ha

Recent developments on Bell's experiments demonstrate that entanglement could indeed eliminate the gap between classical and quantum physics. At the same time, it is difficult for a classical theory to include a particular feature like…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Pradosh Keshav MV

A recent paper published on Nature [Nature,646,813(2025)] by Aziz and Howl, claims that quantum particles become entangled when they interact gravitationally, even if the gravitational potential is treated classically. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Anirudh Gundhi , Giorgia Infantino , Angelo Bassi

Quantum mechanics has many counter-intuitive consequences which contradict our intuition which is based on classical physics. Here we discuss a special aspect of quantum mechanics, namely the possibility of entanglement between two or more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin B. Plenio , Vlatko Vedral

One of the great challenges for 21st century physics is to quantize gravity and generate a theory that will unify gravity with the other three fundamental forces of nature. This paper takes the (heretical) point of view that gravity may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-17 Stephen Boughn

Recent progress in table-top experiments offers the opportunity to show for the first time that gravity is not compatible with a classical description. In all current experimental proposals, such as the generation of gravitationally induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Lin-Qing Chen , Flaminia Giacomini
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