ZARM Talk: Atoms, Gravity, and the Quantum Puzzle: Where Do We Stand?
How well do we understand how atoms fall in a gravitational field? Can we extract reliable and testable information from theories that seem fundamentally incompatible? Join the talk on 3 July 2025 at 2 pm at ZARM.
ZARM Talk by Domenico Giulini
from Leibniz University Hannover & ZARM
- Date: 03 July 2025
- Time: 14:00
- Location: ZARM, room 1730
How things (atoms) fall
A longstanding and most challenging problem in theoretical physics concerns our understanding of how gravity affects the dynamics of quantum systems. As Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are regarded as fundamentally incompatible, we face the problem of how to derive testable predictions within this apparently incoherent set of schemes. In his talk, Domenico Giulini will review some of the amazing and also puzzling aspects of gravity in the strong field regime and also address the project of measuring spacetime-curvature effects with long-baseline atom interferometers in the weak gravitational field of the Earth. The talk will be at an introductory level.
