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Publications in Scientific Journals:

H. Abele, T. Jenke, H. Leeb, H.-J. Schmiedmayer:
"Ramsey´s method of separated oscillating fields and its application to gravitationally induced quantum phase shifts";
Physical Review D, 81 (2010), 065019; 1 - 8.



English abstract:
We propose to apply Ramsey´s method of separated oscillating fields to the spectroscopy of the
quantum states in the gravity potential above a horizontal mirror. This method allows a precise
measurement of quantum mechanical phaseshifts of a Schro¨dinger wave packet bouncing off a hard
surface in the gravitational field of the Earth. Measurements with ultracold neutrons will offer a sensitivity
to Newton´s law or hypothetical short-ranged interactions, which is about 21 orders of magnitude below
the energy scale of electromagnetism.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.065019

Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_187642.pdf


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