Ramsey's Method of Separated Oscillating Fields and its Application to Gravitationally Induced Quantum Phaseshifts
Nuclear Experiment
2010-04-29 v1
Abstract
We propose to apply Ramsey's method of separated oscillating fields to the spectroscopy of the quantum states in the gravity potential above a vertical mirror. This method allows a precise measurement of quantum mechanical phaseshifts of a Schr\"odinger wave packet bouncing off a hard surface in the gravitational field of the earth. Measurements with ultra-cold neutrons will offer a sensitivity to Newton's law or hypothetical short-ranged interactions, which is about 21 orders of magnitude below the energy scale of electromagnetism.
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@article{arxiv.0907.5447,
title = {Ramsey's Method of Separated Oscillating Fields and its Application to Gravitationally Induced Quantum Phaseshifts},
author = {H. Abele and T. Jenke and H. Leeb and J. Schmiedmayer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5447},
year = {2010}
}
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7 pages, 6 figures