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One of the most striking features of quantum theory is the existence of entangled states, responsible for Einstein's so called "spooky action at a distance". These states emerge from the mathematical formalism of quantum theory, but to date…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Jonathan G. Richens , John H. Selby , Sabri W. Al-Safi

We address a fundamental issue in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory, the generation of an entangled pair of qubits that interact solely through a third, semiclassical degree of freedom, in the framework of cavity quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Amir Leshem , Omri Gat

Quantum particles and classical particles are described in a common setting of classical statistical physics. The property of a particle being "classical" or "quantum" ceases to be a basic conceptual difference. The dynamics differs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wetterich

No experimental test to date has provided conclusive evidence on the quantum nature of gravity. Recent proposals, such as the BMV experiment, suggest that generating entanglement could serve as a direct test. Motivated by these proposals,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 P. George Christopher , S. Shankaranarayanan

We analyse the entanglement dynamics of the two particles interacting through gravity in the recently proposed experiments aiming at testing quantum signatures for gravity [Phy. Rev. Lett 119, 240401 & 240402 (2017)]. We consider the open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 H. Chau Nguyen , Fabian Bernards

Very recently [Phys. Rev. E 82, 021921 (2010)] a simple mechanism was presented by which a molecule subjected to forced oscillations, out of thermal equilibrium, can maintain quantum entanglement between two of its quantum degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Jianming Cai , Sandu Popescu , Hans J. Briegel

Investigating the quantum nature of gravity is an important issue in modern physics. Recently, studies pertaining to the quantum superposition of gravitational potential have garnered significant interest. Inspired by Mari \textit{et al.}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Yuuki Sugiyama , Akira Matsumura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Quantization of the gravity remains one of the most important, yet extremely illusive, challenges at the heart of modern physics. Any attempt to resolve this long-standing problem seems to be doomed, as the route to any direct empirical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Yusef Maleki , Alireza Maleki

Combining gravity with quantum mechanics remains one of the biggest challenges of physics. In the past years, experiments with opto-mechanical systems have been proposed that may give indirect clues about the quantum nature of gravity. In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yue Ma , Thomas Guff , Gavin Morley , Igor Pikovski , M. S. Kim

Recent experimental tests of Bell inequalities confirm that entangled quantum systems cannot be described by local classical theories but still do not answer the question whether or not quantum systems could in principle be modelled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Kawthar Al Rasbi , Lewis A. Clark , Almut Beige

Although general relativity is a predictively successful theory, it treats matter as classical rather than as quantum. For this reason, it will have to be replaced by a more fundamental quantum theory of gravity. Attempts to formulate a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Christian Wuthrich

Conventional approaches to quantum gravity regard quantum principles, such as nonlocality and superposition, as fundamental properties of nature and therefore argue that gravity must also be quantized. In contrast, this work introduces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Filip Strubbe

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

Since the beginning of quantum mechanics, many puzzling phenomena which distinguish the quantum from the classical world, have appeared such as complementarity, entanglement or contextuality. All of these phenomena are based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 S. Wölk

Multiple observers who interact with environmental encodings of the states of a macroscopic quantum system S as required by quantum Darwinism cannot demonstrate that they are jointly observing S without a joint a priori assumption of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Chris Fields

It is one of the most remarkable features of quantum physics that measurements on spatially separated systems cannot always be described by a locally causal theory. In such a theory, the outcomes of local measurements are determined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Yeong-Cherng Liang

Classical entanglement is a powerful tool which provides a neat numerical estimate for the study of classical correlations. Its experimental investigation, however, has been limited to special cases. Here, we demonstrate that the…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-24 E. Roccia , I. Gianani , L. Mancino , M. Sbroscia , I. Miatka , F. Somma , M. Barbieri

An explicit dynamical model for non relativistic quantum mechanics with an effective gravitational interaction is proposed, which, as being well defined, allows in principle for the evaluation of every physical quantity. Its non unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio De Filippo

We conjecture that the total quantum entanglement of matter and vacuum in the universe tends to increase with time, like entropy, and that an effective force is associated with this tendency. We also suggest that gravity and dark energy are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-16 Jae-Weon Lee , Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jungjai Lee

In this work we review and further develop the controversial concept of "classical entanglement" in optical beams. We present a unified theory for different kinds of light beams exhibiting classical entanglement and we indicate several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Andrea Aiello , Falk Töppel , Christoph Marquardt , Elisabeth Giacobino , Gerd Leuchs