Comment on: 'Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency?'

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/4/048001MaRDI QIDQ3225482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 21 March 2012

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6039

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Experimental work for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: We show that Wolf et al.'s 2011 analysis in Class. Quant. Grav. v28, 145017 does not support their conclusions, in particular that there is "no redshift effect" in atom interferometers except in inconsistent dual Lagrangian formalisms. Wolf et al. misapply both Schiff's conjecture and the results of their own analysis when they conclude that atom interferometers are tests of the weak equivalence principle which only become redshift tests if Schiff's conjecture is invalid. Atom interferometers are direct redshift tests in any formalism.

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