A demonstration that classical gravity does not produce entanglement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19242v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:52:57 GMT
• Title: A demonstration that classical gravity does not produce entanglement
• Authors: Mike D. Schneider, Nick Huggett, Niels Linnemann,
• Abstract summary: Dispute has arisen over the interpretation of proposed quantum information theory experiments.<n>The confusion appears to reside in interpreting applications of a Hamiltonian formalism.<n>A Newton-Cartan analysis shows that if gravity is classical, a mediator, and entanglement is observed as an outcome of performing a GIE experiment.
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• Abstract: Once again, dispute has arisen over the interpretation of proposed quantum information theory experiments to probe the quantum nature of gravity by testing for gravitationally induced entanglement (GIE) between two spatially separated massive particles ([1] vs. [11,12]; further contributions in [7,9]). The confusion appears to reside in interpreting applications of a Hamiltonian formalism. But classical gravity cannot mediate entanglement on independent grounds. A Newton-Cartan analysis shows that if gravity is classical, a mediator, and entanglement is observed as an outcome of performing a GIE experiment, something other than gravity must have supplied the (virtual) force needed during the experiment to produce the effect.

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