Testing the Equivalence Principle using Atomic Vacuum Energy Shifts

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12 December 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9612031

Abstract

We consider possible tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle for quantum-mechanical vacuum energies by evaluating the Lamb shift transition in a class of non-metric theories of gravity described by the \tmu formalism. We compute to lowest order the associated red shift and time dilation parameters, and discuss how (high-precision) measurements of these quantities could provide new information on the validity of the equivalence principle.

Keywords

EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE
MECHANICAL VACUUM
ATOMIC VACUUM
VACUUM ENERGY
ENERGY SHIFTS
LAMB SHIFT
PRINCIPLE
DILATION
GRAVITY

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Version 1, 1996-12-12, ArXiv
Published version: Modern Physics Letters A, 11 (21), 1757.

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