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The present paper reconsiders the Newtonian limit of models of modified gravity including higher order terms in the scalar curvature in the gravitational action. This was studied using the Palatini variational principle in [Meng X. and Wang…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas P. Sotiriou

In this letter, we will analyse the deformation of a semi-classical gravitational system from minimal measurable length scale. In the semi-classical approximation, the gravitational field will be analysed as a classical field, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-18 Qin Zhao , Mir Faizal , Zaid Zaz

This work is focused on searching a geodesic interpretation of the dynamics of a particle under the effects of a Snyder like deformation in the background of the Kepler problem. In order to accomplish that task, a newtonian spacetime is…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Carlos Leiva

The late time accelerated expansion of the Universe demands that even in local galactic-scales it is desirable to study astrophysical phenomena, particularly relativistic accretion related phenomena in massive galaxies or in galaxy mergers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-28 Tamal Sarkar , Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Arunava Bhadra

Semiclassical gravity, in which a classical spacetime is sourced by the quantum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor, is a standard framework for describing the gravitational interaction of quantum matter. In the nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Hollis Williams

Considering extreme-mass-ratio inspirals along with the conservative dynamics of gravitational self-force, we compare viable theories of gravity. In particular, by examining a Schwarzschild background we analyse the self-force-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Vincenzo Ventriglia

We show that optomechanical systems can test the Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton equation of gravitational quantum mechanics due to Yang et al. This equation is motivated by semiclassical gravity, a widely used theory of interacting gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 C. C. Gan , C. M. Savage , S. Z. Scully

In a foregoing paper, gravity has been interpreted as the pressure force exerted on matter at the scale of elementary particles by a perfect fluid. Under the condition that Newtonian gravity must be recovered in the incompressible case, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayeul Arminjon

It is pointed out that the Diosi-Penrose ansatz for gravity-induced quantum state reduction can be tested by observing oscillations in the flavor ratios of neutrinos originated at cosmological distances. Since such a test would be almost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joy Christian

Hierarchical three-body systems offer a compelling framework to explore the subtle interplay between Newtonian and relativistic gravitational effects in astrophysical environments. In this work, we investigate post-Newtonian corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Pietro Farina , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Hideki Asada , Ivan De Martino , Riccardo Della Monica

The Diosi-Penrose model of quantum-classical boundary postulates gravity-related spontaneous wave function collapse of massive degrees of freedom. The decoherence effects of the collapses are in principle detectable if not masked by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi

Many theories of modified gravity, including the well studied Horndeski models, are characterized by a screening mechanism that ensures that standard gravity is recovered near astrophysical bodies. In a recently introduced class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ryo Saito , Daisuke Yamauchi , Shuntaro Mizuno , Jérôme Gleyzes , David Langlois

Ultracold neutrons are great experimental tools to explore the gravitational interaction in the regime of quantized states. From a theoretical perspective, starting from a Dirac equation in curved spacetime, we applied a perturbative scheme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Benjamin Koch , Enrique Muñoz , Alessandro Santoni

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a prospective semiclassical alternative to a quantized theory of gravity, predicts a gravitational self-force between the two trajectories corresponding to the two z-spin eigenvalues for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 André Großardt

Recently a new -quantum motivated- theory of gravity has been proposed that modifies the standard Newtonian potential at large distances when spherical symmetry is considered. Accordingly, Newtonian gravity is altered by adding an extra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-14 Jorge Mastache , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Axel de la Macorra

The Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a theoretical framework connecting quantum mechanics with classical gravity, predicts that gravity may induce measurable deviations in low-frequency mechanical systems-an intriguing hypothesis at the…

Recent experimental results for the gravitational constant G from Cavendish-type experiments were analysed in the framework of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). MOND corrections were applied to the equation of motion of a pendulum, under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-20 Norbert Klein

It has been suggested that the nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation might approximate the coupling of quantum mechanics with gravitation, particularly in the context of the M{\o}ller-Rosenfeld semiclassical theory. Numerical results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. R. van Meter

This paper considers a main particle and an incident particle classical mechanics elastic collision preserving energy and momentum while ignoring the angular momentum, spin or other particle characteristics. The main result of the paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-07 Johan Beumee , Hershel Rabitz

Using post-Newtonian equations of motion for fluid bodies valid to the second post-Newtonian order, we derive the equations of motion for binary systems with finite-sized, non-spinning but arbitrarily shaped bodies. In particular we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Mitchell , Clifford M. Will