Is the gravitational field quantized like the other fundamental forces, i.e., made up of gravitons? Or is something more exotic happening? Our group works toward an answer to this question both through theory and experiment.
Key publications:
D. Carney, P. C. E. Stamp, J. M. Taylor, Tabletop experiments for quantum gravity: a user’s manual, Classical and Quantum Gravity 2018
D. Carney, H. Muller, J. M. Taylor, Using an Atom Interferometer to Infer Gravitational Entanglement Generation, PRX Quantum 2021
D. Carney, Newton, entanglement, and the graviton, Phys. Rev. D 2022
D. Carney, V. Domcke, N. Rodd, Graviton detection and the quantization of gravity, Phys. Rev. D 2024
D. Carney, M. Karydas, R. Singh, T. Scharnhorst, J. M. Taylor, On the quantum mechanics of entropic forces, Phys. Rev. X 2025