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Interference of geometries in quantum gravity

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The intensity of the wave function of a quantum particle is shown to undergo a spatial oscillation due to the influence of a quantum superposition of space-time geometries in a simply connected region, even though each geometry is flat in this region.

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Anandan, J. Interference of geometries in quantum gravity. Gen Relat Gravit 26, 125–133 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02105148

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