Gravity mediated entanglement between light beams as a table-top test of quantum gravity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12713v1
• Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:17:14 GMT
• Title: Gravity mediated entanglement between light beams as a table-top test of quantum gravity
• Authors: Stefan Aimet, Hadrien Chevalier, M.S. Kim
• Abstract summary: There is still no experimental evidence of any non-classical features of gravity. Recent table-top protocols based on low-energy quantum control have opened a new avenue into the investigation of non-classical gravity.
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• Abstract: Over the past century, a large community within theoretical physics has been seeking a unified framework for quantum gravity. Yet, to date, there is still no experimental evidence of any non-classical features of gravity. While traditional experimental proposals would usually require immensely challenging Planck scale experiments, recent table-top protocols based on low-energy quantum control have opened a new avenue into the investigation of non-classical gravity. An approach that has sparked high interest, both in terms of experimental feasibility and of theoretical implications, is the indirect witnessing of non-classical gravity through the detection of its capacity to act as an entangling channel. Most discussions have been centred on the entanglement generation between two gravitationally coupled massive systems. In this work, we instead examine the entangling capacity of the gravitational interaction between two light pulses, we explain the main experimental and theoretical advantages of having a photonic protocol, and lay out the steps leading to the determination of the entangling phase, using the path integral formalism and linearised gravity. We establish a closed form formula for the entangling phase and provide an estimated order of magnitude of the average photon number required for the generation of appreciable phase.

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