New Windows on Fundamental Physics: from tabletop devices to large scale detectors

Session

Tuesday Morning II

20 Jan 2026, 11:30

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre (University of Manchester)

Conveners

Tuesday Morning II

• Peter Millington (University of Manchester)

29. AION

Dr Jeremiah Mitchell

20/01/2026, 11:30

20. Probing the ground state of gravitational entanglement: Incompleteness of quantum foundations without holography in the background space-time

Ohkyung Kwon (University of Chicago and Cardiff University)

20/01/2026, 12:00

Talk (main workshop)

We present a science case for the QUEST experiment at Cardiff University as a probe of the ground state of gravitational entanglement. The foundations of quantum mechanics have been tested with exceptional levels of rigor, mathematically and experimentally. However, the theoretical framework in which the mathematical formalism is constructed presumes a classical, definite space-time as its...