Massive quantum systems as interfaces of quantum mechanics and gravity

S Bose, I Fuentes, AA Geraci, SM Khan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The traditional view from particle physics is that quantum gravity effects should only become
detectable at extremely high energies and small length scales. Due to the significant …

Geometric phases and the Sagnac effect: foundational aspects and sensing applications

IL Paiva, R Lenny, E Cohen - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Geometric phase is a key player in many areas of quantum science and technology. In this
review article, several foundational aspects of quantum geometric phases and their relations …

Amplified transduction of Planck-scale effects using quantum optics

P Bosso, S Das, I Pikovski, MR Vanner - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
The unification of quantum mechanics and gravity remains as one of the primary challenges
of present-day physics. Quantum-gravity-inspired phenomenological models offer a window …

Quantum limits to gravity estimation with optomechanics

F Armata, L Latmiral, ADK Plato, MS Kim - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We present a table-top quantum estimation protocol to measure the gravitational
acceleration g by using an optomechanical cavity. In particular, we exploit the nonlinear …

Limits on inference of gravitational entanglement

Y Ma, T Guff, GW Morley, I Pikovski, MS Kim - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Combining gravity with quantum mechanics remains one of the biggest challenges of
physics. In the past years, experiments with optomechanical systems have been proposed …

Generating mechanical and optomechanical entanglement via pulsed interaction and measurement

J Clarke, P Sahium, KE Khosla, I Pikovski… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Entanglement generation at a macroscopic scale offers an exciting avenue to develop new
quantum technologies and study fundamental physics on a tabletop. Cavity quantum …

A new bound on polymer quantization via an opto-mechanical setup

M Khodadi, K Nozari, S Dey, A Bhat, M Faizal - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The existence of a minimal measurable length as a characteristic length in the Planck scale
is one of the main features of quantum gravity and has been widely explored in the context …

Constraints on probing quantum coherence to infer gravitational entanglement

O Hosten - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Finding a feasible scheme for testing the quantum mechanical nature of the gravitational
interaction has been attracting an increasing level of attention. Gravity mediated …

Solving Quantum Dynamics with a Lie-Algebra Decoupling Method

S Qvarfort, I Pikovski - PRX Quantum, 2025 - APS
Quantum technologies rely on the control of quantum systems at the level of individual
quanta. Mathematically, this control is described by Hamiltonian or Liouvillian evolution …

Enhancing cross-Kerr coupling via mechanical parametric amplification

LJ Feng, Y You, HX Dong, FC Wang, SQ Gong - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a proposal to enhance the cross-Kerr coupling between the cavity and the
mechanical oscillator significantly. Specifically, the periodic modulation of the mechanical …