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Gravity can be considered as an effective quantum field theory with reliable, but limited predictions. Though the influence of gravity on gauge and other interactions of elementary particles is still an open question. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-15 G. Cynolter , E. Lendvai

The effect of a classical gravitational field on the spin entanglement of a system of two spin-1/2 particles moving in the curved spacetime is discussed. The system is described by a two-particle Gaussian wave packet represented in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Bahram Nasr Esfahani

We argue that if the Newtonian gravitational field of a body can mediate entanglement with another body, then it should also be possible for the body producing the Newtonian field to entangle directly with on-shell gravitons. Our arguments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Daine L. Danielson , Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

We describe explicitly how entanglement between quantum mechanical subsystems can lead to emergent gauge symmetry in a classical limit. We first provide a precise characterisation of when it is consistent to treat a quantum subsystem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Josh Kirklin

Whether gravity is quantized remains an open question. To shed light on this problem, various Gedankenexperiments have been proposed. One popular example is an interference experiment with a massive system that interacts gravitationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Erik Rydving , Erik Aurell , Igor Pikovski

Quantum mechanics exhibits a wide range of nonclassical features, of which entanglement in multipartite systems takes a central place. In several specific settings, it is well known that nonclassicality (e.g., squeezing, spin squeezing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Nathan Killoran , Frank E. S. Steinhoff , Martin B. Plenio

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

Quantum gravity was born as that branch of modern theoretical physics that tries to unify its guiding principles, i.e., quantum mechanics and general relativity. Nowadays it is providing new insight into the unification of all fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Giampiero Esposito

In contrast to the intuitively plausible assumption of local realism, entangled particles, even when isolated, are not allowed to possess definite properties in their own right, as quantitatively expressed by violations of Bell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Savasta , O. DiStefano , R. Girlanda

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

For any experiment with two entangled photons, some joint measurement outcomes can have zero probability for a precise choice of basis. These perfect anti-correlations would seem to be a purely quantum phenomenon. It is therefore surprising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Ken Wharton , Emily Adlam

It is shown that if a metric in quantum gravity can be decomposed as a sum of classical and quantum parts then Einstein quantum gravity looks approximately like modified gravity with a nonminimal interaction between gravity and matter.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-07 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We give a rigorous description of a model of the quantized electromagnetic field interacting with quantized current fields. In the special case of classical currents our results agree with common knowledge about the problem. A toy model of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Naudts , Wojciech De Roeck

Gravitons should have momentum just as photons do; and since graviton momentum would cause compression rather than elongation of spacetime outside of matter; it does not appear that gravitons are compatible with Swartzchild's spacetime…

General Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Michael Byrne

In a previous work and in terms of an exact quantum-mechanical framework, $\hbar$-independent causal and retarded expectation values of the second-quantized electro-magnetic fields in the Coulomb gauge were derived in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Bo-Sture K. Skagerstam , Karl-Erik Eriksson , Per K. Rekdal

A theory of quantum gravity consists of a gravitational framework which, unlike general relativity, takes into account the quantum character of matter. In spite of impressive advances, no fully satisfactory, self-consistent and empirically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 R. Muciño , E. Okon , D. Sudarsky , M. Wiedemann

Embezzlement of entanglement refers to the counterintuitive possibility of extracting entangled quantum states from a reference state of an auxiliary system (the "embezzler") via local quantum operations while hardly perturbing the latter.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Lauritz van Luijk , Alexander Stottmeister , Reinhard F. Werner , Henrik Wilming

A theoretical framework for the quantization of gravity has been an elusive Holy Grail since the birth of quantum theory and general relativity. While generations of scientists have attempted solutions to this deep riddle, an alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Francesco Coradeschi , Antonia Micol Frassino , Thiago Guerreiro , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Enrico Junior Schioppa

This simple analysis shows that photon-like particles are not strange within the conceptual framework of the classical electromagnetic field theory. Circular polarized waves lead to photons. Thus, light quantum hypothesis is not necessary.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Srecko Botric , Krunoslav Ljolje

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