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Atom interferometers allow the measurement of the acceleration of freely falling atoms with respect to an experimental platform at rest on Earth's surface. Such experiments have been used to test the universality of free fall by comparing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Peter Wolf , Luc Blanchet , Christian J. Bordé , Serge Reynaud , Christophe Salomon , Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

As a consequence of gravitomagnetism, which is a fundamental weak-field prediction of general relativity and ubiquitous in gravitational phenomena, clocks show a difference in their proper periods when moving along identical orbits in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Lichtenegger , W. Hausleitner , F. Gronwald , B. Mashhoon

The relationship between uniformly accelerated reference frames in flat spacetime and the uniform gravitational field is examined in a relativistic context. It is shown that, contrary to previous statements in the pages of this journal,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Gerardo Munoz , Preston Jones

The difference in the proper azimuthal periods of revolution of two standard clocks in direct and retrograde orbits about a central rotating mass is proportional to J/Mc^2, where J and M are, respectively, the proper angular momentum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Mashhoon , F. Gronwald , F. W. Hehl , D. S. Theiss

Atomic interference experiments can probe the gravitational redshift via the internal energy splitting of atoms and thus give direct access to test the universality of the coupling between matter-energy and gravity at different spacetime…

The gravitational wave memory effect is characterized by the permanent relative displacement of a pair of initially comoving test particles that is caused by the passage of a burst of gravitational waves. Recent research on this effect has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols

This article aims at comparing gravitational wave memory effect in a Schwarzschild spacetime with that of other compact objects with static and spherically symmetric spacetime, with the purpose of proposing a procedure for differentiating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Soumya Bhattacharya , Shramana Ghosh

Gravitation, according to General Relativity, is an attribute of space-time's geometry and hence not a force in the Newtonian sense. This is a consequence of Einstein's equivalence principle, which so far passed all experimental tests with…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Domenico Giulini

For most theories which parametrize modifications of General Relativity, including those which violate the equivalence principle, gravitational redshift tests typically offer weaker constraints on such test parameters than do precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Michael A. Hohensee , Holger Mueller

For the purpose of analyzing observed phenomena, it has been convenient, and thus far sufficient, to regard gravity as subject to the deterministic principles of classical physics, with the gravitational field obeying Newton's law or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Maulik Parikh , Frank Wilczek , George Zahariade

We investigate leading order deviations from general relativity that violate the Einstein equivalence principle in the gravitational standard model extension. We show that redshift experiments based on matter waves and clock comparisons are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Michael A. Hohensee , Steven Chu , Achim Peters , Holger Mueller

General relativity predicts that two freely counter-revolving test particles in the exterior field of a central rotating mass take different periods of time to complete the same full orbit; this time difference leads to the gravitomagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Bahram Mashhoon , Lorenzo Iorio , Herbert Lichtenegger

Einstein's equivalence principle in classical physics is a rule stating that the effect of gravitation is locally equivalent to the acceleration of an observer. The principle determines the motion of test particles uniquely (modulo very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrzej Herdegen , Jaroslaw Wawrzycki

A proper time observable for a quantum clock is introduced and it is found that the proper time read by one clock conditioned on another clock reading a different proper time obeys classical time dilation in accordance with special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Takeshi Chiba , Shunichiro Kinoshita

A general principle of non-equivalence for bodies and observers in different G potentials (GP) was derived from correspondence of the Einstein's equivalence principle either with optical physics or with gravitational experiments in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael A. Vera

The phase of matter waves depends on proper time and is therefore susceptible to special-relativistic (kinematic) and gravitational (redshift) time dilation. Hence, it is conceivable that atom interferometers measure general-relativistic…

Despite growing interest, there is a scarcity of known predictions in the regime where both quantum and general relativistic effects become observable. Here, we investigate a combined atom-field system in a curved spacetime, with a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jerzy Paczos , Navdeep Arya , Sofia Qvarfort , Daniel Braun , Magdalena Zych

We study modifications of gravitational wave observables, such as the wave amplitude and frequency, which follow from the quantum equivalence principle, and are expressed in terms of the inertial, gravitational and rest masses of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-26 Saurya Das , Mitja Fridman , Gaetano Lambiase

The behaviour of a "test" electromagnetic field in the background of an exact gravitational plane wave is investigated in the framework of Einstein's general relativity. We have expressed the general solution to the de Rham equations as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Montanari , Mirco Calura

The detection of gravitational waves is possible thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, involving different disciplines such as astrophysics, physics, engineering and quantum optics. Consequently, it is important today for teachers to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 Matteo Luca Ruggiero