We construct entangled states of gluons that scatter exactly as if they were
gravitons. Operationally, these objects implement the double copy at the level
of the wave function...Our analysis begins with a general ansatz for a wave
function characterizing gluons in two copies of ${\rm SU}(N)$ gauge theory. Given relatively minimal assumptions following from permutation invariance and
dimensional analysis, the three- and four-particle wave functions generate
scattering amplitudes that automatically coincide exactly with gravity, modulo
normalization. For five-particle scattering the match is not automatic but
imposing certain known selection rules on the amplitude is sufficient to
uniquely reproduce gravity. The resulting amplitudes exhibit a color-dressed
and permutation-invariant form of the usual double copy relations. We compute
the entanglement entropy between the two gauge theory copies and learn that
these states are maximally-entangled at large $N$. Moreover, this approach
extends immediately to effective field theories, where Born-Infeld photons and
Galileons can be similarly recast as entangled gluons and pions.(read more)