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| author | Xue, Hanyu Tang, Ziqian Yang, Chen Han, Zizhao Kan, Zikuan Liu, Yulong |
| author_facet | Xue, Hanyu Tang, Ziqian Yang, Chen Han, Zizhao Kan, Zikuan Liu, Yulong |
| contents | Aziz and Howl argued that a classical gravitational field can generate quantum entanglement through a quantum-field-theoretic channel mediated by virtual matter propagation. However, their claimed channel is more naturally and accurately understood as semiclassical wavepacket motion in an external gravitational field, rather than as a distinctively quantum-field-theoretic entangling effect. Moreover, the result of their perturbative computation is incorrectly magnified: they selected a discontinuous wavefunction with infinite kinetic energy as the initial state and simultaneously treated it as stationary. Once a correct treatment using Gaussian wavepacket is adapted, the resulting effect will be negligibly small. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Aziz and Howl's Gravity-Induced Entanglement Channel is Essentially Classical Mechanics Xue, Hanyu Tang, Ziqian Yang, Chen Han, Zizhao Kan, Zikuan Liu, Yulong Quantum Physics Aziz and Howl argued that a classical gravitational field can generate quantum entanglement through a quantum-field-theoretic channel mediated by virtual matter propagation. However, their claimed channel is more naturally and accurately understood as semiclassical wavepacket motion in an external gravitational field, rather than as a distinctively quantum-field-theoretic entangling effect. Moreover, the result of their perturbative computation is incorrectly magnified: they selected a discontinuous wavefunction with infinite kinetic energy as the initial state and simultaneously treated it as stationary. Once a correct treatment using Gaussian wavepacket is adapted, the resulting effect will be negligibly small. |
| title | Aziz and Howl's Gravity-Induced Entanglement Channel is Essentially Classical Mechanics |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16276 |