Breakdown of the Einstein's equivalence principle for a quantum body

DOI10.1142/S0217732320300104MaRDI QIDQ5117099zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrei G. Lebed

Publication date 20 August 2020

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14073

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityequivalence principlemass-energy equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

Abstract: We review our recent theoretical results about inequivalence between passive gravitational mass and energy for a composite quantum body at a macroscopic level. In particular, we consider macroscopic ensembles of the simplest composite quantum bodies - hydrogen atoms. Our results are as follows. For the most ensembles, the Einstein's Equivalence Principle is valid. On the other hand, we discuss that for some special quantum ensembles - ensembles of the coherent superpositions of the stationary quantum states in the hydrogen atoms (which we call Gravitational demons) - the Equivalence Principle between passive gravitational mass and energy is broken. We show that, for such superpositions, the expectation values of passive gravitational masses are not related to the expectation values of energies by the famous Einstein's equation, i.e, $m_{g}eqfracE{c}^2$. Possible experiments at the Earth's laboratories are briefly discussed, in contrast to the numerous attempts and projects to discover the possible breakdown of the Einstein's Equivalence Principle during the space missions.

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