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FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00207
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quantum gravity; time discreteness; entanglement; non perturbative effects; quantum gravity phenomenology
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- John Templeton Foundation [61466]
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The Bose-Marletto-Vedral (BMV) experiment tests a quantum gravitational effect predicted by low energy perturbative quantum gravity. It has received attention because it may soon be within observational reach in the lab. We point out that: (i) in relativistic language, the experiment tests an interference effect between proper-time intervals; (ii) the feasibility study by Bose et al. suggests that current technology could allow to probe differences of such proper-time intervals of the order of 10(-38) seconds, about twenty orders of magnitude beyond the current resolution of the best atomic clocks; (iii) the difference of proper times approaches Planck time (10(-44)s) if the masses of the particles in the experiment approach the Planck mass (similar to micrograms). This implies that the experiment might open a window on the structure of time at the Planck scale. We show that if time differences are discrete at the Planck scale-as research in quantum gravity may suggest-the Planckian discreteness of time would appear as quantum levels of an in principle measurable entanglement entropy.
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