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arxiv: gr-qc/9612031 · v1 · submitted 1996-12-12 · 🌀 gr-qc

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Testing the Equivalence Principle using Atomic Vacuum Energy Shifts

C. Alvarez , R.B. Mann
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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.

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