Testing the Equivalence Principle in Quantum Physics

Details Testing the Equivalence Principle in Quantum Physics Testing the Equivalence Principle in Quantum Physics

1997-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712076v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, LateX

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We showed in a previous paper that a wide class of nonmetric theories of gravity encompassed by the $\chi g$ formalism predict that the speed of light rays depends on the their polarization direction relative to directions singled out by the gravitational field. This gravity-induced birefringence of space is a violation of the Equivalence Principle and is due to the nonmetric coupling between gravity and electromagnetism. In this paper we analyze the propagation of light in the gravitational field of a rotating black hole when nonmetric couplings to curvature are included and compute the time delay between rays with orthogonal polarizations. We obtain an upper bound on the strength of QED like and CP violating curvature couplings using time delay data for pulsar PSR 1937+21. By comparison the corresponding coupling strength for QED coupling is 37 orders of magnitude less.

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