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The Strong Equivalence Principle (SEP) demands, besides the validity of the Einstein Equivalence Principle, that all self-gravitating bodies feel the same acceleration in an external gravitational field. It has been found that metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Norbert Wex

Consistency relations of large-scale structure offer a unique and powerful test of the weak equivalence principle (EP) on cosmological scales. If the EP is violated, different tracers will undergo different accelerations in response to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Lawrence Dam , Omar Darwish

In this talk I will describe some recent results on the sensitivity of resonant mass detectors shaped as a hollow sphere to scalar gravitational radiation. Detection of this type of gravitational radiation will signal deviations from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Fucito

We investigate cosmological constraints on local position invariance (LPI), a key aspect of the Einstein equivalence principle (EEP), through asymmetric galaxy clustering. The LPI asserts that the outcomes of the non-gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-28 Takuya Inoue , Teppei Okumura , Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya

The M\"ossbauer rotor effect recently gained a renewed interest due to the discovery and explanation of an additional effect of clock synchronization which has been missed for about 50 years, i.e. starting from a famous book of Pauli, till…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Christian Corda

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

The Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) experiment provides precise observations of the lunar orbit that contribute to a wide range of science investigations. In particular, time series of highly accurate measurements of the distance between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-17 James G. Williams , Slava G. Turyshev , Dale Boggs

Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) states that any freely falling, uncharged test particle follows the same identical trajectory independent of its internal structure and composition. Since the polarization of a photon is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-05 Xue-Feng Wu , Jun-Jie Wei , Mi-Xiang Lan , He Gao , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Mészáros

The Standard-Model Extension provides a framework to systematically investigate possible violation of the Lorentz symmetry. Concerning gravity, the linearized version was extensively examined. We here cast the first set of experimental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Lijing Shao , Quentin G. Bailey

We study physical consequences of the Einstein equivalence principle (EEP) for a Hubble observer in FLRW universe. We introduce the local inertial coordinates with the help of a special conformal transformation. The local inertial metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-19 Sergei M. Kopeikin

The various materials of test masses, and the difference of arm lengths of global ground-based gravitational-wave interferometer detectors offer a unique approach to test Newton's second law, weak equivalence principle, and Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-29 Xi-Long Fan

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with tenfold better sensitivity compared to the advanced LIGO detectors. It will be capable of observing copious stellar mass binary black hole mergers up to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Pinaki Roy , Tomasz Bulik

Recent results have shown that a field non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic Lagrangian can induce a violation of the Einstein equivalence principle. { This kind of coupling is present in a very wide class of gravitation theories.}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 R. F. L. Holanda , S. H. Pereira , V. C. Busti , C. H. G. Bessa

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a clock at a higher gravitational potential will tick faster than an otherwise identical clock at a lower potential, an effect known as the gravitational redshift. Here we perform a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Xin Zheng , Jonathan Dolde , Matthew C. Cambria , Hong Ming Lim , Shimon Kolkowitz

The manifestation of equivalence principle (EP) in spin-gravity interactions, resulting in the nullification of the corresponding analog of Anomalous Magnetic moment is explored. Its tests in the experiments with atoms and cold neutrons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 O. V. Teryaev

Einstein`s equivalence principle states the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and corresponding inertial field in an accelerated reference frame. However, to what extent the equivalence principle remains valid in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Stefano Longhi

We report on a conceptually new test of the equivalence principle performed by measuring the acceleration in Earth's gravity field of two isotopes of strontium atoms, namely, the bosonic $^{88}$Sr isotope which has no spin vs the fermionic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 M. G. Tarallo , T. Mazzoni , N. Poli , D. V. Sutyrin , X. Zhang , G. M. Tino

The Earth, Mars, Sun, Jupiter system allows for a sensitive test of the strong equivalence principle (SEP) which is qualitatively different from that provided by Lunar Laser Ranging. Using analytic and numerical methods we demonstrate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John D. Anderson , Mark Gross , Kenneth L. Nordtvedt , Slava G. Turyshev

A primary objective of the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) experiment is to provide precise observations of the lunar orbit that contribute to a wide range of science investigations. Time series of the highly accurate measurements of the distance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 James G. Williams , Slava G. Turyshev , Dale H. Boggs

We report on our efforts to test the Einstein Equivalence Principle by measuring the gravitational redshift with the VLBI spacecraft RadioAstron, in an eccentric orbit around Earth with geocentric distances as small as $\sim$ 7,000 km and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 N. V. Nunes , N. Bartel , M. F. Bietenholz , M. V. Zakhvatkin , D. A. Litvinov , V. N. Rudenko , L. I. Gurvits , G. Granato , D. Dirkx