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The observed time delays between photons with different circular polarizations from an astrophysical object provide a new, interesting way of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). In this paper, we constrain the EEP by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Shuang-Xi Yi , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Jun-Jie Wei , Qi-Qi Zhou

The observed time delays between different energy bands from TeV blazars provide a new interesting way of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). If the whole time delay is assumed to be dominated by the gravitational field of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Jun-Jie Wei , Jie-Shuang Wang , He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu

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

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 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

Comparing the parameterized post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$ values for different types of particles, or the same type of particles with different energies is an important method to test the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). Assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-12 Zhi-Xing Luo , Bo Zhang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) can be probed with astrophysical sources emitting simultaneously different types of neutral particles, or particles with varying energies, by testing their time of flight through the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Mészáros

In this work, a precise quantum formulation of Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) is developed within the framework of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. By employing detailed analyses in both the Schr\"odinger and Heisenberg pictures,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 S. A. Torres

We propose and apply a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle (EEP) based on the gravitational redshift induced by the central super massive black hole of quasars in the surrounding accretion disk. Specifically, we compare the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 E. Mediavilla , J. JimÉnez-Vicente

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 Einstein's weak equivalence principle (WEP) is one of the foundational assumptions of general relativity and some other gravity theories. In the theory of parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN), the difference between the PPN parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 H. Yu , S. Q. Xi , F. Y. Wang

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 consider the problem of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) by measuring the gravitational redshift with two Earth-orbiting stable atomic clocks. For a reasonably restricted class of orbits we find an optimal experiment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 D. A. Litvinov , S. V. Pilipenko

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) underpins all metric theories of gravity. One of its key aspects is the local position invariance (LPI) of non-gravitational experiments, which is captured by the gravitational red-shift. The iconic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-22 Daniel R. Terno , Francesco Vedovato , Matteo Schiavon , Alexander R. H. Smith , Piergiovanni Magnani , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide a unique opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. While GR predicts only two tensor polarization modes, generic metric theories allow up to six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Sk Md Adil Imam , Macarena Lagos

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them are reviewed. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the E\"otv\"os experiment, tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Clifford M. Will

In this paper, we analyze parity-violating effects in the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). For this purpose, we adopt a newly proposed parametrized post-Einstenian (PPE) formalism, which encodes modified gravity corrections to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Matteo Califano , Rocco D'Agostino , Daniele Vernieri

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them are reviewed. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the E\"otv\"os experiment, tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Clifford M. Will

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) is one of the foundations of the theory of General Relativity and several alternative theories of gravitation predict violations of the EEP. Experimental constraints on this fundamental principle of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-19 P. Delva , A. Hees , S. Bertone , E. Richard , P. Wolf

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analyzing them are reviewed and updated. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the Eotvos experiment, tests…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-06 Clifford M. Will
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