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arxiv: 1510.01696 · v1 · submitted 2015-10-06 · 🪐 quant-ph · gr-qc

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Optomechanical test of the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation

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keywords equationodinger-newtonschroptomechanicalquantumtestaccessiblealternative
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The Schr\"odinger-Newton equation has been proposed as an experimentally testable alternative to quantum gravity, accessible at low energies. It contains self-gravitational terms, which slightly modify the quantum dynamics. Here we show that it distorts the spectrum of a harmonic system. Based on this effect, we propose an optomechanical experiment with a trapped microdisc to test the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, and we show that it can be realized with existing technology.

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