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Two of us (CM and VV) recently showed how the quantum character of a physical system, in particular the gravitational field, can in principle be witnessed without directly measuring observables of that system, solely by its ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 C. Marletto , V. Vedral , D. Deutsch

The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is usually understood via the limit $\hbar \rightarrow 0$. This is the underlying idea behind the quantization of classical objects. The apparent incompatibility of general relativity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra

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

Protocols for observing gravity induced entanglement typically comprise the interaction of two particles prepared either in a superposition of two discrete paths, or in a continuously delocalized (harmonic oscillator) state of motion. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Ofek Bengyat , Andrea Di Biagio , Markus Aspelmeyer , Marios Christodoulou

Current proposals to probe the quantum nature of gravity in the low-energy regime predominantly focus on the Newtonian interaction term. In this work, we present a theoretical exploration of gravitationally mediated entanglement arising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Trinidad B. Lantaño , Luciano Petruzziello , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

When two particles interact primarily through gravity and follow the laws of quantum mechanics, the generation of entanglement is considered a hallmark of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction. However, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Giovanni Spaventa , Ludovico Lami , Martin B. Plenio

Entanglement, a defining property of quantum mechanics in which two physical subsystems cannot be seen as independent entities, challenges our everyday experience and classical intuition. However, only such strong quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Enno Giese

A new proof of the impossibility of a universal quantum-classical dynamics is given. It has at least two consequences. The standard paradigm ``quantum system is measured by a classical apparatus" is untenable, while a quantum matter can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel R. Terno

I prove that classical gravity coupled with quantized matter can be renormalized with a finite number of independent couplings, plus field redefinitions, without introducing higher-derivative kinetic terms in the gravitational sector, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Damiano Anselmi

From its seemingly non-intuitive and puzzling nature, most evident in numerous EPR-like gedankenexperiments to its almost ubiquitous presence in quantum technologies, entanglement is at the heart of modern quantum physics. First introduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Dilip Paneru , Eliahu Cohen , Robert Fickler , Robert W. Boyd , Ebrahim Karimi

Motivated by recent discussions of entanglement in the context of high energy scattering, we consider the relation between the entanglement entropy of a highly excited state of a quantum system and the classical entanglement entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Haowu Duan , Alex Kovner , Vladimir V. Skokov

In non-gravitational quantum field theory, the entanglement entropy across a surface depends on the short-distance regularization. Quantum gravity should not require such regularization, and it's been conjectured that the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-01 Yasha Neiman

Witnessing non-classicality in the gravitational field has been claimed to be practically impossible. This constitutes a deep problem, which has even lead some researchers to question whether gravity should be quantised, due to the weakness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

We analyze the interaction between quantum matter and classical objects through a general effective channel for hybrid dynamics, subject to the fundamental constraint that no quantum correlations can be generated between the classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Tianfeng Feng , Chiara Marletto , Vlatko Vedral

When gravity is sourced by a quantum system, there is tension between its role as the mediator of a fundamental interaction, which is expected to acquire nonclassical features, and its role in determining the properties of spacetime, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Thomas D. Galley , Flaminia Giacomini , John H. Selby

The generation of entanglement produced by a local potential interaction in a bipartite system is investigated. The degree of entanglement is contrasted with the underlying classical dynamics for a Rydberg molecule (a charged particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lombardi , A. Matzkin

We argue that semiclassical gravity can be made consistent if quantum systems source gravity only when they participate in non-gravitational interactions that lead to environment-induced decoherence. Outside such decoherence-based events,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Francisco Pipa

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 show that for two initially excited qubits, interacting via dipole forces and with a common reservoir, entanglement is preceded by the emergence of quantum and classical correlations. After a time lag, entanglement finally starts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Adriana Auyuanet , Luiz Davidovich

This paper points out the importance of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction with matter in a linearized theory of quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses (QGEM). We will show how the quantum interaction entangles the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-03 Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar , Martine Schut , Marko Toroš