Comment on Classical-Gravity--Quantum-Matter Claims About Gravity-Mediated Entanglement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20717v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:14:33 GMT
• Title: Comment on Classical-Gravity--Quantum-Matter Claims About Gravity-Mediated Entanglement
• Authors: Mikołaj Sienicki, Krzysztof Sienicki,
• Abstract summary: A recent paper by Aziz and Howl argues that, once quantum matter is described at the level of quantum field theory and coupled to a classical gravitational field, higher order processes can generate entanglement between two spatially separated masses.<n>A contemporaneous critical note shows that, in the actual nonrelativistic limit employed there, the interaction becomes ultra local, the total unitary factorizes, and no entanglement is generated from a product input.
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• Abstract: A recent paper by Aziz and Howl (Nature 2025) argues that, once quantum matter is described at the level of quantum field theory and coupled to a classical gravitational field, higher order processes can generate entanglement between two spatially separated masses. A contemporaneous critical note (Marletto, Oppenheim, Vedral, Wilson, arXiv:2511.07348v1) shows that, in the actual nonrelativistic limit employed there, the interaction becomes ultra local, the total unitary factorizes, and no entanglement is generated from a product input. In this comment we (i) restate the core point of that critique, (ii) give a channel theoretic reformulation that makes the conclusion model independent, and (iii) clarify the distinction between activation of entanglement in already quantum matter and genuine mediation of entanglement by a classical field. Once these clarifications are in place, the standard BMV inference that observation of gravity mediated entanglement strongly indicates nonclassical gravitational degrees of freedom remains intact.

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