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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

The weak equivalence principle is one of the cornerstone of general relativity. Its validity has been tested with impressive precision in the Solar System, with experiments involving baryonic matter and light. However, on cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Camille Bonvin , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Pierre Fleury

The Lamb Shift (LS) of Hydrogenlike atom is evaluated by a simple method of quantum electrodynamics in noncovariant form, based on the relativistic stationary Schr\"odinger equation. An induced term proportional to $\overrightarrow{p}^4$ in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-jiong Ni , Jun Yan

The equivalence principle can be tested by precision experiments based on classical and quantum systems, on the ground as well as in space. In many models, these tests are mostly equivalent in their ability to constrain physics beyond the…

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

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

Sagnac effect has been studied in terms of Gyroscopic system in both Lorentz frame as well as flat Einstein frame. The Einstein equivalence principle has been used to determine the phase shift due to pseudo force in the transformation from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-06 Shouvik Sadhukhan

The quantum vacuum fundamentally alters the properties of embedded particles. In contrast to classical empty space, it allows for creation and annihilation of excitations. For trapped particles this leads to a change in the energy spectrum,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-07 T. Rentrop , A. Trautmann , F. A. Olivares , F. Jendrzejewski , A. Komnik , M. K. Oberthaler

We present an important contribution to the non-commutative approach to the hydrogen atom to deal with lamb shift corrections. This can be done by studying the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations in a non-commutative space-time up to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-13 Slimane Zaim

Ultracold atomic gases can undergo phase transitions that mimic relativistic vacuum decay, allowing us to empirically test early-Universe physics in tabletop experiments. We investigate the physics of these analog systems, going beyond…

Motivated by recent experiments on quantum mechanical charge pumping in a Cooper pair sluice, we present a measurement scheme for observing shifts of transition frequencies in two-level quantum systems induced by broadband environmental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-11 V. Gramich , P. Solinas , M. Möttönen , J. P. Pekola , J. Ankerhold

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

Any canonical quantum theory can be understood to arise from the compatibility of the statistical geometry of distinguishable observations with the canonical Poisson structure of Hamiltonian dynamics. This geometric perspective offers a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vishnu Jejjala , Djordje Minic , Chia-Hsiung Tze

We show that the existence of a minimum measurable length and the related Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP), predicted by theories of Quantum Gravity, influence all quantum Hamiltonians. Thus, they predict quantum gravity corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Saurya Das , Elias C. Vagenas

Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), the universality of free fall, is a fundamental component of general relativity and other metric theories of gravity. Its validity can be tested through the post-Newtonian parameter gamma, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Tian-Cong Wang , Aleksandra Piorkowska - Kurpas , Marek Biesiada , He Gao

We develop a framework to test the Equivalence Principle (EP) under conditions where the quantum aspects of nature cannot be neglected, specifically in the context of interference phenomena with unstable particles. We derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-25 Y. Bonder , E. Fischbach , H. Hernandez-Coronado , D. E. Krause , Z. Rohrbach , D. Sudarsky

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 equivalence principle of gravity is examined at the quantum level using the diffraction in time of matter waves in two ways. First, we consider a quasi-monochromatic beam of particles incident on a shutter which is removed at time $t =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Juan A. Cañas , J. Bernal , A. Martín-Ruiz

We analyze possible violations of the Equivalence Principle in scalar-tensor gravity at finite temperature $T.$ Before we present an approach where the Equivalence Principle violation is achieved within the framework of Quantum Field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-19 Massimo Blasone , Salvatore Capozziello , Gaetano Lambiase , Luciano Petruzziello

In a previous paper by the author a new approach in quantum electrodynamics was proposed in which the electronic and electromagnetic fields are ordinary c-numbers in contradistinction to noncommuting q-numbers used in the standard…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 V. A. Golovko

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP), stating that all laws of physics take their special-relativistic form in any local inertial (classical) reference frame, lies at the core of general relativity. Because of its fundamental status,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Flaminia Giacomini , Časlav Brukner
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