Quantum Gravity in a Laboratory? - Couverture souple

Huggett, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009327534 ISBN 13 : 9781009327534

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The characteristic - Planck - energy scale of quantum gravity makes experimental access to the relevant physics apparently impossible. Nevertheless, low energy experiments linking gravity and the quantum have been undertaken: the Page and Geilker quantum Cavendish experiment, and the Colella-Overhauser-Werner neutron interferometry experiment, for instance. However, neither probes states in which gravity remains in a coherent quantum superposition, unlike - it is claimed - recent proposals. In essence, if two initially unentangled subsystems interacting solely via gravity become entangled, then theorems of quantum mechanics show that gravity cannot be a classical subsystem. There are formidable challenges to such an experiment, but remarkably, tabletop technology into the gravity of very small bodies has advanced to the point that such an experiment might be feasible in the near future. This Element explains the proposal and what it aims to show, highlighting the important ways in which its interpretation is theory-laden.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009327534
• ISBN 13: 9781009327534
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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