UQ Physicist Builds on Einstein and Galileo's Work (IMAGE)

University of Queensland

UQ Physicist Builds on Einstein and Galileo's Work

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In the new quantum test of the Einstein equivalence principle, free fall of atoms in quantum superpositions on different mass-energies, |a> and |b>, was compared to the free fall of atoms with a well-defined, classical mass-energy |a>. In all previous tests of this principle, the objects were in classical mass-energy states.

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Image credit: Dr Magdalena Zych

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