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Matter waves and clocks do not observe uniform gravitational fields
| العنوان: | Matter waves and clocks do not observe uniform gravitational fields |
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| المؤلفون: | Asenbaum, Peter, Overstreet, Chris, Kasevich, Mark A. |
| المصدر: | Phys. Scr. 99 046103 (2024) |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Quantum Physics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| الوصف: | In a uniform gravitational field, classical test objects fall universally. Any reference object or observer will fall in the same universal manner. Therefore, a uniform gravitational field cannot create dynamics between observers and classical test objects. The influence of a uniform gravitational field on matter waves and clocks, however, is described inconsistently throughout research and education. To illustrate, we discuss the behavior of a matter-wave interferometer and a clock redshift experiment in a uniform gravitational field. As a consistent formulation of the equivalence principle implies, a uniform gravitational field has no observable influence on these systems and is physically equivalent to the absence of gravity. Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1402-4896/ad340c |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03057 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2404.03057 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1402-4896/ad340c |
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