Large-Scale Fiber Interferometry to Measure the Gravitationally Induced Phase Shift on Entangled Photons
- Author(s)
- Eleonora Polini, Dorotea Macri, Xinghui Yin, Eric Oelker, Piotr Chruściel, Georgi Dvali, Christopher Hilweg, Mario Hudelist, Dorilian L. Mago, Thomas Mieling, Thomas Morling, Marius Oancea, Raffaele Silvestri, Florian Steininger, Haocun Yu, Philip Walther, Nergis Mavalvala
- Abstract
Gravitational time dilation, a prediction of General Relativity, lacks confirmation alongside quantum mechanics. Our experiment aims to measure gravitationally induced phase shift of path-entangled photons between two vertically displaced arms of a fiber interferometer.
- Organisation(s)
- Gravitational Physics, Research Network Quantum Aspects of Space Time, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ)
- No. of pages
- 2
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1364/QUANTUM.2024.QTh4C.3
- Publication date
- 2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103028 Theory of relativity, 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103021 Optics
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e00f7388-475a-4aa6-99ce-e1d3938f1b12