Force-free gravitational redshift: Proposed gravitational Aharonov-Bohm experiment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Hohensee, Michael A ^a   Estey, Brian ^a   Hamilton, Paul ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^b   Müller, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECTS; COMPTON; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT; MATTER WAVES; MOVING ATOM; QUANTUM MECHANICAL;

EXPERIMENTS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84861893461     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.230404     Document Type: Article

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