Violation of the Einstein's equivalence principle for a composite quantum body

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Abstract

Recently, we have started to investigate behavior of a composite quantum body in an external gravitational field in the framework of General Relativity [see, for a review, A. G. Lebed, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, 35, 2030010 (2020)]. As the simplest example, we have considered a hydrogen atom in a weak gravitational field. Our results are the following. The Einstein's Equivalence Principle survives for the most of macroscopic ensembles of the atoms, containing the stationary quantum states. On the other hand, we have demonstrated that this principle is sometimes broken. In particular, it is broken for the so-called Gravitational demons, which are the coherent macroscopic ensembles of two or more stationary quantum states in the hydrogen atoms. In the above cited paper we have considered the Gedanken experiment, where the gravitational field is suddenly switched on in a free from gravitation space. In the current paper we consider the much more realistic from experimental point of view Gedanken experiment and come to the same conclusion about violations of the Einstein's Equivalence Principle for the Gravitational demons.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number120048-1
JournalAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2872
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event11th International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences, IC-MSQUARE 2022 - Virtual, Online, Serbia
Duration: Sep 5 2022Sep 8 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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