Gravitation at the mesoscopic scale

Details Gravitation at the mesoscopic scale Gravitation at the mesoscopic scale

1997-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9706004v1

Mod.Phys.Lett. A12 (1997) 1411-1417

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 Pages, no figures; Plain REVTeX; to be published in Modern Physics Letters A

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Free fall experiments are discussed by using test masses associated to quantum states not necessarily possessing a classical counterpart. The times of flight of the Galileian experiments using classical test masses are replaced in the quantum case by probability distributions which, although still not defined in an uncontroversial manner, become manifestly dependent upon the mass and the initial state. Such a dependence is also expected in non inertial frames of reference if the weak equivalence principle still holds. This last could be tested, merging recent achievements in mesoscopic physics, by using cooled atoms in free fall and accelerated frames initially prepared in nonclassical quantum states.

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