A possible experimental test of quantized gravity

While it is widely believed that gravity should ultimately be treated as a quantum theory, there remains a possibility that general relativity should not be quantized. If this is the case, the coupling of classical gravity to the expectation value of the quantum stress-energy tensor will naturally lead to nonlinearities in the Schrödinger equation. By numerically investigating time evolution in the nonrelativistic “Schrödinger-Newton” approximation, we show that such nonlinearities may be observable in the next generation of molecular interferometry experiments. email: [email protected] email: [email protected]