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Testing Whether Gravity Acts as a Quantum Entity When Measured

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08133v5
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:51:52 GMT
Title: Testing Whether Gravity Acts as a Quantum Entity When Measured
Authors: Farhan Hanif, Debarshi Das, Jonathan Halliwell, Dipankar Home, Anupam Mazumdar, Hendrik Ulbricht, Sougato Bose,
Abstract summary: A defining signature of classical systems is "in principle measurability" without disturbance. We describe a multi-interferometer experimental setup that can, in principle, reveal the nonclassicality of a spatial superposition-sourced gravitational field.
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Abstract: A defining signature of classical systems is "in principle measurability" without disturbance: a feature manifestly violated by quantum systems. We describe a multi-interferometer experimental setup that can, in principle, reveal the nonclassicality of a spatial superposition-sourced gravitational field if an irreducible disturbance is caused by a measurement of gravity. While one interferometer sources the field, the others are used to measure the gravitational field created by the superposition. This requires neither any specific form of nonclassical gravity, nor the generation of entanglement between any relevant degrees of freedom at any stage, thus distinguishing it from the experiments proposed so far. This test, when added to the recent entanglement-witness based proposals, enlarges the domain of quantum postulates being tested for gravity. Moreover, the proposed test yields a signature of quantum measurement induced disturbance for any finite rate of decoherence, and is device independent.

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