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We present a second-quantized field theory of massive spin one-half particles or antiparticles in the presence of a weak gravitational field treated as a spin two external field in a flat Minkowski background. We solve the difficulties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Christian J. Bordé , Jean-Claude Houard , Alain Karasiewicz

A coupling between Earths rotation and orbital angular momentum (OAM), known as the Sagnac effect, is observed in entangled neutrons produced using a spin echo interferometer. After correction for instrument systematics the measured…

Sensitive and accurate rotation sensing is a critical requirement for applications such as inertial navigation [1], north-finding [2], geophysical analysis [3], and tests of general relativity [4]. One effective technique used for rotation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 E. R. Moan , R. A. Horne , T. Arpornthip , Z. Luo , A. J. Fallon , S. J. Berl , C. A. Sackett

The advantages of light and matter-wave Sagnac interferometers -- large area on one hand and high rotational sensitivity per unit area on the other -- can be combined utilizing ultra-slow light in cold atomic gases. While a group-velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Zimmer , M. Fleischhauer

We study the problem of estimating the phase shift due to the general relativistic time dilation in the interference of photons using a non-linear Mach-Zender interferometer setup. By introducing two non-linear Kerr materials, one in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sebastian P. Kish , Timothy C. Ralph

Current models of quantum interference experiments in external gravitational fields lack a common framework: while matter-wave interferometers are commonly described using the Schr\"odinger equation with a Newtonian potential, gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Thomas B. Mieling , Thomas Morling , Christopher Hilweg , Philip Walther

The general relativistic gravitomagnetic clock effect consists in the fact that two point particles orbiting a central spinning object along identical, circular equatorial geodesic paths, but in opposite directions, exhibit a time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-12 Lorenzo Iorio

Using a unified approach of optical-mechanical analogy in a semiclassical formula, we evaluate the effect of Chern-Simons modified gravity on the quantum phase shift of de Broglie waves in neutron interferometry. The phase shift calculated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 K. K. Nandi , I. R. Kizirgulov , O. V. Mikolaychuk , N. P. Mikolaychuk , A. A. Potapov

We canonically quantize a spin-less non-relativistic point particle in a rigidly rotating cylinder symmetric reference system. The resulting quantum mechanics is investigated in the case of both a two-dimensional cylindrical shell and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Bjørn Jensen

The coupling between a moving ground-state atom and the quantum electromagnetic field is at the origin of several intriguing phenomena ranging from the dynamical Casimir emission of photons to Sagnac-like geometric phase shifts in atom…

Sagnac effect has been studied in terms of Gyroscopic system in both Lorentz frame as well as flat Einstein frame. The Einstein equivalence principle has been used to determine the phase shift due to pseudo force in the transformation from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-06 Shouvik Sadhukhan

An experiment to test for relativistic frame dragging effects with quantum interferometry is proposed. The idea that the classical trajectories of the interferometer surround a spherical mass source whose angular momentum is perpendicular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-27 Y. Bonder , J. E. Herrera-Flores

A new method based on Synge's world function is developed for determining within the WKB approximation the gravitationally induced quantum phase shift of a particle propagating in a stationary spacetime. This method avoids any calculation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-10 Bernard Linet , Pierre Teyssandier

The Sagnac effect is usually considered as being a relativistic effect produced in an interferometer when the device is rotating. General relativistic explanations are known and already widely explained in many papers. Such general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-19 Elmo Benedetto , Fabiano Feleppa , Ignazio Licata , Hooman Moradpour , Christian Corda

We show that a quantum particle subjected to a positive force in one path of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a null force in the other path may receive a negative average momentum transfer when it leaves the interferometer by a particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Raul Corrêa , Marina F. B. Cenni , Pablo L. Saldanha

We report generation of a new quantum interference effect in spontaneous emission from a resonantly driven system of two identical two-level atoms due to the spatial variation of the laser phase at the positions of the atoms. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-06 Sumanta Das , G. S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

The ability to interferometrically detect inertial rotations via the Sagnac effect has been a strong stimulus for the development of atom interferometry because of the potential 10^{10} enhancement of the rotational phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chris P. Search , John R. E. Toland , Marko Zivkovic

Tune-out wavelengths measured with an atom interferometer are sensitive to laboratory rotation rates because of the Sagnac effect, vector polarizability, and dispersion compensation. We observed shifts in measured tune-out wavelengths as…

It has been recently suggested that possible effects of Chern-Simons gravity on a quantum interferometer are dependent on the latitude and direction of the interferometer on Earth in orbital motion around Sun. Continuing work initiated in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Hiroki Okawara , Kei Yamada , Hideki Asada

In this paper we investigate the Sagnac effect by calculating the difference in travel time and phase shift observed for photon beams counter--propagating in a rotating interferometer on a BTZ black hole solution in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Ángel Rincón , J. R. Villanueva