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Gravitational Redshift Tests with Atomic Clocks and Atom Interferometers

Di Pumpo, Fabio ; Ufrecht, Christian ; Friedrich, Alexander ; Giese, Enno ; Schleich, Wolfgang P. ; Unruh, William G. (2021)
Gravitational Redshift Tests with Atomic Clocks and Atom Interferometers.
In: PRX Quantum, 2 (4)
doi: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.040333
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Atomic interference experiments can probe the gravitational redshift via the internal energy splitting of atoms and thus give direct access to test the universality of the coupling between matter-energy and gravity at different spacetime points. By including possible violations of the equivalence principle in a fully quantized treatment of all atomic degrees of freedom, we characterize how the sensitivity to gravitational redshift violations arises in atomic clocks and atom interferometers, as well as their underlying limitations. Specifically, we show that: (i) Contributions beyond linear order to trapping potentials lead to such a sensitivity of trapped atomic clocks. (ii) Bragg-type interferometers, even with a superposition of internal states, with state-independent, linear interaction potentials are at first insensitive to gravitational redshift tests. However, modified configurations, for example by relaunching the atoms, can mimic such tests under certain conditions and may constitute a competitive alternative. (iii) Guided atom interferometers are comparable to atomic clocks. (iv) Internal transitions lead to state-dependent interaction potentials through which light-pulse atom interferometers can become sensitive to gravitational redshift violations.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2021
Autor(en): Di Pumpo, Fabio ; Ufrecht, Christian ; Friedrich, Alexander ; Giese, Enno ; Schleich, Wolfgang P. ; Unruh, William G.
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: Gravitational Redshift Tests with Atomic Clocks and Atom Interferometers
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 11 November 2021
Verlag: APS physics
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: PRX Quantum
Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: 2
(Heft-)Nummer: 4
Kollation: 23 Seiten
DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.040333
URL / URN: https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuan...
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Atomic interference experiments can probe the gravitational redshift via the internal energy splitting of atoms and thus give direct access to test the universality of the coupling between matter-energy and gravity at different spacetime points. By including possible violations of the equivalence principle in a fully quantized treatment of all atomic degrees of freedom, we characterize how the sensitivity to gravitational redshift violations arises in atomic clocks and atom interferometers, as well as their underlying limitations. Specifically, we show that: (i) Contributions beyond linear order to trapping potentials lead to such a sensitivity of trapped atomic clocks. (ii) Bragg-type interferometers, even with a superposition of internal states, with state-independent, linear interaction potentials are at first insensitive to gravitational redshift tests. However, modified configurations, for example by relaunching the atoms, can mimic such tests under certain conditions and may constitute a competitive alternative. (iii) Guided atom interferometers are comparable to atomic clocks. (iv) Internal transitions lead to state-dependent interaction potentials through which light-pulse atom interferometers can become sensitive to gravitational redshift violations.

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Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 05 Fachbereich Physik
05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Angewandte Physik
05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Angewandte Physik > Theoretische Quantenoptik
05 Fachbereich Physik > Institut für Angewandte Physik > Theoretische Quantenphysik
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