TEST OF THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE USING ATOMIC VACUUM ENERGY SHIFTS

10 July 1996

journal article
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Modern Physics Letters A

Vol. 11 (21) , 1757-1763
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732396001740

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 nonmetric theories of gravity described by the T H εµ formalism. We compute to lowest-order the associated redshift 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
VACUUM ENERGY
GRAVITY
ATOMIC VACUUM
ENERGY SHIFTS
DILATION
ASSOCIATED REDSHIFT
MECHANICAL VACUUM

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