Breakdown of Einstein's equivalence principle /

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Imprint:	Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2023]
Description:	1 online resource ( xvii, 182 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Equivalence principle (Physics)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12936144

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Other authors / contributors:	Lebed, A. G. (Andrei G.), editor.
ISBN:	9811253595 9789811253591
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2022).
Other form:	Print version: Lebed, Andrei G Breakdown Of Einstein's Equivalence Principle Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company,c2022 9789811253584

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Preface
1. Breakdown of the Einstein's Equivalence Principle for a Quantum Body
1. Introduction
2. Goal
3. Inequivalence Between Passive Gravitational Mass and Energy at a Microscopic Level (Method-1)
3.1. Electron wave function in a hydrogen atom with a definite energy in the absence of gravitational field
3.2. Electron wave functions in a hydrogen atom in the presence of gravitational field
3.3. Probabilities and amplitudes
4. Inequivalence Between Passive Gravitational Mass and Energy at a Microscopic Level (Method-2)
4.1. Schrödinger equation with a definite energy in the absence of gravitational field
4.2. Schrödinger equation in the presence of gravitational field
4.2.1. More general Lagrangian
4.2.2. More general Hamiltonian
4.3. Gravitational field as a perturbation to the Hamiltonian
4.4. Some experimental aspects
5. Einstein's Equivalence Principle for the Stationary Quantum States at a Macroscopic Level
5.1. Non-relativistic hydrogen atom
5.2. Relativistic corrections to a hydrogen atom
6. Inequivalence Between Passive Gravitational Mass and Energy at a Macroscopic Level for the Gravitational Demons (Method-1)
7. Inequivalence Between Passive Gravitational Mass and Energy at a Macroscopic Level for the Gravitational Demons (Method-2)
7.1. Some experimental aspects
8. Inequivalence Between Active Gravitational Mass and Energy at a Macroscopic Level for the Gravitational Demons
8.1. Active gravitational mass in classical physics
8.2. Active gravitational mass in quantum physics
8.2.1. Equivalence of the expectation values of active gravitational mass and energy for stationary quantum states
8.2.2. Inequivalence between active gravitational mass and energy for Gravitational demons
8.3. Some experimental aspects
Acknowledgments
References
2. Probing Unruh Radiation and the Equivalence Principle with Unruh-DeWitt Detectors
1. Unruh-Dewitt Detector
2. Unruh Effect
2.1. Motion with constant velocity
2.2. Motion with constant linear acceleration
2.3. Motion with constant circular acceleration
3. Sokolov-Ternov Effect with Arbitrary Gyromagnetic Number and Unruh Effect
3.1. Synchrotron radiation due to the electric charge
3.2. Synchrotron radiation due to spin flip
4. The Equivalence Principle
4.1. Minkowski space-time
4.2. Rindler space-time
4.3. Schwarzschild space-time
4.4. Mach's principle, equivalence principle, and gravity
4.5. Thermal Mach's principle
5. Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
3. Gravity at Finite Temperature, Equivalence Principle, and Local Lorentz Invariance
1. Introduction
2. Non-geodesic Motion of Test Particles at Finite Temperature.

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