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The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) carries a pivotal role in understanding theory of gravity and spacetime. It guarantees the gravity to be understood as geometric phenomenon. Considering gravitational coupling of matter in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 ChengGang Qin , YuJie Tan , ChengGang Shao

Clusters of galaxies have been used to measure a subtle effect predicted by Einstein: gravitational redshift. This signal encodes pristine information about our Universe, since it is sensitive to the depth of the clusters' gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Enea Di Dio , Sveva Castello , Camille Bonvin

We review the physics of atoms and clocks in weakly curved spacetime, and how each may be used to test the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) in the context of the minimal Standard Model Extension (mSME). We find that conventional clocks…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-24 Michael A. Hohensee , Holger Mueller

The weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is an ultraviolet consistency condition asserting that an Abelian force requires a state of charge $q$ and mass $m$ with $q>m/m_{\rm Pl}$. We generalize the WGC to product gauge groups and study its tension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-31 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

It is often said that measuring a system's position must disturb the complementary property, momentum, by some minimum amount due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Using a "weak-measurement", this disturbance can be reduced. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 G. S. Thekkadath , F. Hufnagel , J. S. Lundeen

We report a hyperfine-states related weak equivalence principle (WEP) test which searches for possible WEP violation signal in single atom interferometer. With the ground hyperfine states $\left|F=1\right\rangle$ and…

We propose a new precision measurement of parity-violating electron scattering on the proton at very low Q^2 and forward angles to challenge predictions of the Standard Model and search for new physics. A unique opportunity exists to carry…

When the weak value of a projector is 1, a quantum system behaves as in that eigenstate with probability 1. By definition, however, the weak value may take an anomalous value lying outside the range of probability like -1. From the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Kazuhiro Yokota , Nobuyuki Imoto

Investigation into the applicability of the equivalence principle in quantum mechanics has taken many forms, with varying conclusions. Here, a dynamical semi-classical description of a wave packet in terms of its center of mass and higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Joseph Balsells , Martin Bojowald

Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, has passed stringent tests in laboratories, elsewhere in the Solar Sytem, and in pulsar binaries. Nevertheless it is known to be incompatible with quantum mechanics and must differ from the…

Gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts provide direct measurements of the Hubble diagram. We demonstrate that incorporating weak lensing into bright standard siren analyses allows measurements of cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ville Vaskonen

The MICROSCOPE mission aims to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) in orbit with an unprecedented precision of 10$^{-15}$ on the E\"otv\"os parameter thanks to electrostatic accelerometers on board a drag-free micro-satellite. The…

A scheme of an optical detector is proposed for checking Einsteins equivalence principle (EEP) in a null gravitational redshift experiment and for testing methods for calculating the length of a resonator in a weak variable gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-07 R. A. Daishev , Z. G. Murzakhanov , A. F. Skochilov

We investigate the possibility of testing of the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) using measurements of anomalous magnetic moments of elementary particles. We compute the one loop correction for the $g-2$ anomaly within the class of non…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 C. Alvarez , R. B. Mann

The impact of atomic parity violation experiments on determination of the weak mixing parameter $\sin^2 \theta$ and the Peskin-Takeuchi parameters $S$ and $T$ is reassessed in the light of recent electroweak measurements at LEP, SLAC, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Jonathan L. Rosner

The gravity gradient is one of the most serious systematic effects in atomic tests of the equivalence principle (EP). While differential acceleration measurements performed with different atomic species under free fall test the validity of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Sheng-wey Chiow , Jason Williams , Nan Yu , Holger Müller

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) with rapid variations at cosmological distances are used to place new limits on violations of the gravitational weak equivalence principle (WEP). These limits track intrinsic timing deviations between GRB photons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Matipon Tangmatitham , Robert J. Nemiroff

The Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP) will advance experimental limits on violations of Einstein's Equivalence Principle from their present sensitivity of 2 parts in $10^{13}$ to 1 part in $10^{18}$ through multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-21 James Overduin , Francis Everitt , Paul Worden , John Mester

From a distance, the proton's weak charge is seen through the distorting effects of clouds of virtual particles. The effective weak charge can be calculated by starting with the measured weak coupling at the Z-pole and "running" the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 W. D. Ramsay

The Einstein's equivalence principle can be tested by using parameterized post-Newtonian parameters, of which the parameter $\gamma$ has been constrained by comparing the arrival times of photons with different energies. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Chao Yang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yue-Yang Zhang , Bin Liao , Wei-Hua Lei