Antihydrogen Gravitational Quantum States
Atomic Physics
2011-03-14 v1
Abstract
We present a theoretical study of the motion of the antihydrogen atom () in the Earth's gravitational field above a material surface. We predict that atom, falling in the Earth's gravitational field above a material surface, would settle in long-living quantum states. We point out a method of measuring the difference in energy of in such states that allow us to apply spectroscopy of gravitational levels based on atom-interferometric principles. We analyze a general feasibility to perform experiments of this kind. We point out that such experiments provide a method of measuring the gravitational force () acting on and they might be of interest in a context of testing the Weak Equivalence Principle for antimatter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.2150,
title = {Antihydrogen Gravitational Quantum States},
author = {A. Yu. Voronin and P. Froelich and V. V. Nesvizhevsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2150},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
24 pages, 5 figures