How to Test Bell Nonlocality for Gravity?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08778v1
• Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:52:53 GMT
• Title: How to Test Bell Nonlocality for Gravity?
• Abstract summary: Two masses with embedded entangled spins are placed well outside each other's light cones.<n>Spins are coupled to the motion of their respective masses to generate spatial superpositions.<n>Local measurements are performed only on the gravitational fields of the two masses.
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• Abstract: We propose an experiment to test Bell nonlocality, a genuine nonclassicality, for the gravitational field. Two masses with embedded entangled spins (e.g., two diamonds with their NV-centre spins entangled) are placed well outside each other's light cones, ensuring a locality-loophole-free scenario. The spins are then coupled to the motion of their respective masses to generate spatial superpositions. Finally, local measurements are performed only on the gravitational fields of the two masses. If gravity is quantum, then the two entangled masses would entangle their gravitational fields, leading to correlations certifying Bell nonlocality of gravity. Trapped and ground-state cooled nano-objects with micron-sized spatial superposition are sufficient for this test. This goes beyond the recent proposals to test nonclassicality of gravity by providing, for the first time in the literature, a minimal tool to (i) create Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) state of gravitational curvatures, (ii) witness entangled gravitational curvatures, (iii) rule out any local-realist description of gravity, and (iv) achieve a loophole-free test of gravity's nonclassicality in a fully device-independent way.

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