Testing the Equivalence Principle using Atomic Vacuum Energy Shifts
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We consider possible tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle for quantum-mechanical vacuum energies by evaluating the Lamb shift transition in a class of non-metric theories of gravity described by the \tmu formalism. We compute to lowest order the associated red shift and time dilation parameters, and discuss how (high-precision) measurements of these quantities could provide new information on the validity of the equivalence principle.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9612031,
title = {Testing the Equivalence Principle using Atomic Vacuum Energy Shifts},
author = {C. Alvarez and R. B. Mann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9612031},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, latex, epsf, 1 figure