Neutron interference in the Earth's gravitational field
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-06-28 v1 Popular Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
This work relates to the famous experiments, performed in 1975 and 1979 by Werner et al., measuring neutron interference and neutron Sagnac effects in the earth's gravitational field. Employing the method of Stodolsky in its weak field approximation, explicit expressions are derived for the two phase shifts, which turn out to be in agreement with the experiments and with the previously obtained expressions derived from semi-classical arguments: these expressions are simply modified by relativistic correction factors.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1701.00259,
title = {Neutron interference in the Earth's gravitational field},
author = {Andrei Galiautdinov and Lewis H. Ryder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00259},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure