Classical gravity cannot mediate entanglement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07348v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:51:36 GMT
• Title: Classical gravity cannot mediate entanglement
• Abstract summary: In Nature, 646,813 (2025), Aziz and Howl claim that classical (unquantised) gravity produces entanglement.<n>We show that their model does not produce entanglement.
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• Abstract: In Nature, 646, 813 (2025), Aziz and Howl claim that classical (unquantised) gravity produces entanglement. We show that their model does not produce entanglement. Even if the model produced entanglement, it would be mediated by the quantised matter interaction, and not gravity. Hence entanglement mediated by gravity remains an unambiguous witness of gravity's quantum features.

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