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Testing ER = EPR with Hydrogen

Irfan Javed, Edward Wilson-Ewing
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Physicists Irfan Javed and Edward Wilson-Ewing propose a testable model for the ER = EPR conjecture, suggesting entangled particles may be linked by microscopic quantum wormholes. Their December 2025 study explores measurable effects in hydrogen atoms. The team theorizes that if electric fields leak into these wormholes, they would alter hydrogen’s hyperfine structure—a quantum property measured with extreme precision. This creates a potential experimental pathway to probe wormhole physics. Non-traversable wormholes could also induce a net effective charge in hydrogen, deviating from its known neutrality. Existing high-precision measurements constrain how strongly such wormhole effects could manifest. By leveraging hydrogen’s well-studied properties, the work sets upper limits on the ER = EPR mechanism’s strength, offering a rare bridge between abstract theory and observable quantum phenomena. The paper underscores how atomic physics could serve as a laboratory for testing radical ideas like quantum gravity and entanglement-wormhole duality.
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2512.02156 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 1 Dec 2025] Title:Testing ER = EPR with Hydrogen Authors:Irfan Javed, Edward Wilson-Ewing View a PDF of the paper titled Testing ER = EPR with Hydrogen, by Irfan Javed and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:According to the ER = EPR conjecture, entangled particles are connected by quantum wormholes. Under the assumption that some of the electric field surrounding an entangled charged particle leaks into the wormhole, we show that this effect will modify the hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom. In addition, if the quantum wormholes are non-traversable, this will also lead to a non-zero total effective charge for the hydrogen atom. These effects provide strong constraints on the amplitude of this potential ER = EPR effect, given high-precision measurements of the hydrogen atom's hyperfine structure and total charge. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2512.02156 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2512.02156v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.02156 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Irfan Javed [view email] [v1] Mon, 1 Dec 2025 19:36:54 UTC (13 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Testing ER = EPR with Hydrogen, by Irfan Javed and 1 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2025-12 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)

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