Probing quantum violations of the equivalence principle (Q5943136)

The authors study the emerging indications of the violation of the equivalence principle (VEP). They show that in quantum realm the principle of equivalence suffers a tiny violation. For the ground state of an harmonic oscillator the authors evaluate the kinetic and potential energy contributions from the classically allowed region (CAR), and from the classically forbidden region (CFR). They show that current experimental techniques, when coupled to the solar-neutrino data may be able to explore quantum mechanically induced violations of the equivalence principle.