dc.contributor.author | Hilweg, Christopher | |
dc.contributor.author | Massa, Francesco | |
dc.contributor.author | Walther, Philip | |
dc.contributor.author | Chrusciel, Piotr T | |
dc.contributor.author | Martynov, Denis | |
dc.contributor.author | Mavalvala, Nergis | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-19T19:24:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-19T19:24:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-03 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017-02 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1367-2630 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110023 | |
dc.description.abstract | The effect of the Earth's gravitational potential on a quantum wave function has only been observed for massive particles. In this paper we present a scheme to measure a gravitationally induced phase shift on a single photon traveling in a coherent superposition along different paths of an optical fiber interferometer. To create a measurable signal for the interaction between the static gravitational potential and the wave function of the photon, we propose a variant of a conventional Mach–Zehnder interferometer. We show that the predicted relative phase difference of 10⁻⁵ rad is measurable even in the presence of fiber noise, provided additional stabilization techniques are implemented for each arm of a large-scale fiber interferometer. Effects arising from the rotation of the Earth and the material properties of the fibers are analysed. We conclude that optical fiber interferometry is a feasible way to measure the gravitationally induced phase shift on a single-photon wave function, and thus provides a means to corroborate the equivalence of the energy of the photon and its effective gravitational mass. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa638f | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | IOP Publishing | en_US |
dc.title | Gravitationally induced phase shift on a single photon | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Hilweg, Christopher; Massa, Francesco; Martynov, Denis; Mavalvala, Nergis; Chruściel, Piotr T and Walther, Philip. “Gravitationally Induced Phase Shift on a Single Photon.” New Journal of Physics 19, no. 3 (March 2017): 033028 © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | en_US |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Martynov, Denis | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Mavalvala, Nergis | |
dc.relation.journal | New Journal of Physics | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Hilweg, Christopher; Massa, Francesco; Martynov, Denis; Mavalvala, Nergis; Chruściel, Piotr T; Walther, Philip | en_US |
dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | en_US |