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Quantum entanglement offers powerful opportunities for enhancing measurement sensitivity beyond classical limits, with optical atomic clocks serving as a leading platform for such advances. This chapter introduces the principles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Raphael Kaubruegger , Adam M. Kaufman

The uncertainty principle constitutes a fundamental pillar of quantum theory, representing one of the most distinctive features that differentiates quantum mechanics from classical physics. In this study, we firstly propose a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Rui-Jie Yao , Dong Wang

In May of 1935, Einstein published with two co-authors the famous EPR-paper about entangled particles, which questioned the completeness of Quantum Mechanics by means of a gedankenexperiment. Only one month later, he published a work that…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Gerd Christian Krizek

We study the interplay of general relativity, the equivalence principle, and high-precision experiments involving atomic transitions and g factor measurements. In particular, we derive a generalized Dirac Hamiltonian, which describes both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-26 Ulrich D. Jentschura

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

One of the leading issues in quantum field theory and cosmology is the mismatch between the observed and calculated values for the cosmological constant in Einstein's field equations of up to 120 orders of magnitude. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-21 Michael Bishop , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

Quantum-clock interferometry has been suggested as a quantum probe to test the universality of free fall (UFF) and the universality of gravitational redshift (UGR). In typical experimental schemes it seems advantageous to employ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Gregor Janson , Alexander Friedrich , Richard Lopp

These two accompanying papers treat two mode entanglement for systems of identical massive bosons and the relationship to spin squeezing and other quantum correlation effects. Entanglement is a key quantum feature of composite systems where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Bryan Dalton , John Goold , Barry Garraway , Margaret Reid

The Einstein's equivalence principle is formulated in terms of the accuracy of measurements and its dependence of the size of the area of measurement. It is shown that different refinements of the statement 'the spacetime is locally flat'…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladik Kreinovich , R. R. Zapatrin

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

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

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

Many professional physicists do not fully understand the implications of the Einstein equivalence principle of general relativity. Consequently, many are unaware of the fact that special relativity is fully capable of handling accelerated…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-07-05 R. A. Pepino , R. W. Mabile

Sun's gravitation potential at earth varies during a year due to varying Earth-Sun distance. Comparing the results of very accurate measurements of atomic clock transitions performed at different time in the year allows us to study the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum

The basic tenet of the present work is the assumption of the lack of external and fixed time in the Universe. This assumption is best embodied by general relativity, which replaces the fixed space-time structure with the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-19 Przemysław Małkiewicz , Artur Miroszewski

This paper illustrates various aspects of the ER=EPR conjecture.It begins with a brief heuristic argument, using the Ryu-Takayanagi correspondence, for why entanglement between black holes implies the existence of Einstein-Rosen bridges.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Leonard Susskind

Quantum entanglement plays a fundamental role in quantum cryptography and computation. An important example of quantum entanglement can be found in the correlations of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR). However, despite the plethora of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Luiz Carlos Ryff

We provide a quantum derivation of Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) of general relativity using a new quantum gravity theory proposed by the authors called Electro-Magnetic Quantum Gravity or EMQG (ref. 1). Newtonian Inertia is a…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Ostoma , Mike Trushyk

The mathematical rules used to handle systems of identical quantum particles bring into question whether the elementary constituents of matter, such as electrons, have the fundamental characteristics of persistence and reidentifiability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Philip Goyal

The question of general covariance in quantum gravity is considered in the first post-Newtonian approximation. Transformation properties of observable quantities under deformations of a reference frame, induced by variations of the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirill A. Kazakov