TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum complementarity of clocks in the context of general relativity
AU - Zhou, Zhifan
AU - Margalit, Yair
AU - Rohrlich, Daniel
AU - Japha, Yonathan
AU - Folman, Ron
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge discussions with Wolfgang Schleich and Albert Roura. We thank Zina Binstock for the electronics and the BGU nano-fabrication facility for providing the high-quality chip. This work is funded in part by the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1381/13), the EC Matter-Wave consortium (FP7-ICT-601180), and the German-Israeli DIP project (Hybrid devices: FO 703/2-1) supported by the DFG. We also acknowledge support from the Israeli Council for Higher Education and from the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption (Israel). DR thanks the John Templeton Foundation (Project ID 43297) and the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1190/13) for support. The opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.
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© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2018/8/13
Y1 - 2018/8/13
N2 - Clocks play a special role at the interface of general relativity and quantum mechanics. We analyze a clock-interferometry thought experiment and go on to theoretically derive and experimentally test a complementarity relation for quantum clocks in the context of the gravitational time lag. The effect of time lag is simulated using a magnetic gradient. We study this relation in detail and discuss its application to various types of quantum clocks.
AB - Clocks play a special role at the interface of general relativity and quantum mechanics. We analyze a clock-interferometry thought experiment and go on to theoretically derive and experimentally test a complementarity relation for quantum clocks in the context of the gravitational time lag. The effect of time lag is simulated using a magnetic gradient. We study this relation in detail and discuss its application to various types of quantum clocks.
KW - clock interferometry
KW - complementarity and gravity
KW - gravitational time dilation
KW - quantum gravity and proper time
KW - relativistic complementarity
KW - self-interfering quantum clocks
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U2 - 10.1088/1361-6382/aad56b
DO - 10.1088/1361-6382/aad56b
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053141605
VL - 35
JO - Classical and Quantum Gravity
JF - Classical and Quantum Gravity
SN - 0264-9381
IS - 18
M1 - 185003
ER -