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One of the major difficulties of modern science underlies at the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Different approaches towards such theory have been proposed. Noncommutative theories serve as the root of almost all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Sanjib Dey , Anha Bhat , Davood Momeni , Mir Faizal , Ahmed Farag Ali , Tarun Kumar Dey , Atikur Rehman

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

In this paper we attempt to establish a theory of negative (quasi) probability distributions from fundamental principles and apply it to the study of the double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics. We do so in a way that preserves the main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 J. Acacio de Barros , Gary Oas , Patrick Suppes

Coherent wave splitting is crucial in interferometers. Normally, the waves after this splitting are of the same type. But recent progress in interaction between atom and light has led to the coherent conversion of photon to atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Cheng Qiu , Shuying Chen , L. Q. Chen , Bing Chen , Jinxian Guo , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

Light pulse atom interferometers (AIFs) are exquisite quantum probes of spatial inhomogeneity and gravitational curvature. Moreover, detailed measurement and calibration are necessary prerequisites for very-long-baseline atom interferometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Michael Werner , Ali Lezeik , Dennis Schlippert , Ernst Rasel , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

A critical review of frequency-shift phenomena a la Doppler effect is presented. The importance of Fermi's theory of 1932 is pointed out, and it is argued that there exists a gap in our understanding of this phenomena at a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S C Tiwari

The preceding BCA (Stamper-Kurn et. al., arXiv:1607.01454) asserts that our observation of interference contrast in a half-metre-scale atom interferometer (Kovachy et. al., Nature 528, 530-3 (2015)) does not prove the existence of…

It is shown that contrary to claims of Ref. [1] the formulated in the proper physical variables Low theorem [2] for soft photon emission does not require any modification. We also reject the criticism in Ref. [1] of the papers [3,4]. At the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-20 V. S. Fadin , V. A. Khoze

It has recently been suggested that exotic quantum gravity effects could lead to large vacuum fluctuations, potentially observable with realistic detectors. Experiments are currently being built to search for these signals. Here we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Daniel Carney , Manthos Karydas , Allic Sivaramakrishnan

Recent proposals for space-borne gravitational wave detectors based on atom interferometry rely on extremely narrow single-photon transition lines as featured by alkaline-earth metals or atomic species with similar electronic configuration.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 S Loriani , D Schlippert , C Schubert , S Abend , H Ahlers , W Ertmer , J Rudolph , J M Hogan , M A Kasevich , E M Rasel , N Gaaloul

We have performed a precision atomic interferometry experiment on testing the universality of free fall (UFF) considering atoms' spin degree of freedom. Our experiment employs the Bragg atom interferometer with $^{87}$Rb atoms either in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 Ke Zhang , Min-Kang Zhou , Yuan Cheng , Le-Le Chen , Qin Luo , Wen-Jie Xu , Lu-Shuai Cao , Xiao-Chun Duan , Zhong-Kun Hu

The equivalence principle suggests to consider gravity as an infra-red phenomenon, whose effects are visible only outside Einstein's free-falling elevator. By curving spacetime, General Relativity leaves the smallest systems free of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-27 Federico Piazza

Quantum effects of radiation pressure are expected to limit the sensitivity of second-generation gravitational-wave interferometers. Though ubiquitous, such effects are so weak that they haven't been experimentally demonstrated yet. Using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 P. Verlot , A. Tavernarakis , T. Briant , P. -F. Cohadon , A. Heidmann

We propose an experiment to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) with a test mass consisting of two entangled atoms of different species. In the proposed experiment, a coherent measurement of the differential gravity acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-29 Remi Geiger , Michael Trupke

In this paper we discuss the energy interaction between gravitational waves and laser interferom- eter gravitational wave detectors. We show that the widely held view that the laser interferometer gravitational wave detector absorbs no…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yiqiu Ma , David G Blair , Chunnong Zhao , William Kells

Until 6 October 2005 sixteen redshifts have been measured of long gamma-ray bursts discovered by the Swift satellite. Further 45 redshifts have been measured of the long gamma-ray bursts discovered by other satellites. Here we perform five…

Long-time atom interferometry is instrumental to various high-precision measurements of fundamental physical properties, including tests of the equivalence principle. Due to rotations and gravity gradients, the classical trajectories…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 Albert Roura , Wolfgang Zeller , Wolfgang P. Schleich

After a brief review of arguments in favor of antigravity (as gravitational repulsion between matter and antimatter) we present a simple idea for an experimental test using antiprotons. Different experimental realizations of the same basic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic

In a previous work, we designed a compact atom interferometer to measure homogeneous constant forces guiding the arms via shortcuts to adiabatic paths. Within this scheme we drive the atom by moving spin-dependent traps, and design a force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sofía Martínez-Garaot , I. Lizuain , A. Rodriguez-Prieto , J. G. Muga

This article shows that the there is no paradox. Violation of Bell's inequalities should not be identified with a proof of non locality in quantum mechanics. A number of past experiments is reviewed, and it is concluded that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 V. K. Ignatovich