Null result for violation of the equivalence principle with free-fall rotating gyroscopes

J. Luo, Y. X. Nie, Y. Z. Zhang, and Z. B. Zhou
Phys. Rev. D 65, 042005 – Published 25 January 2002
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Abstract

The differential acceleration between a rotating mechanical gyroscope and a nonrotating one is directly measured by using a double free-fall interferometer, and no apparent differential acceleration has been observed at the relative level of 2×106. It means that the equivalence principle is still valid for rotating extended bodies, i.e., the spin-gravity interaction between the extended bodies has not been observed at this level. Also, to the limit of our experimental sensitivity, there is no observed asymmetrical effect or antigravity of the rotating gyroscopes as reported by Hayasaka et al.

  • Received 6 August 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.042005

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. Luo1,*, Y. X. Nie2, Y. Z. Zhang3,4,†, and Z. B. Zhou1,‡

  • 1Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
  • 3CCAST (World Lab.), P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080
  • 4Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China

  • *Email address: junluo@public.wh.hb.cn
  • Email address: yzhang@itp.ac.cn
  • Mailing address of Y. Z. Zhang.

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Vol. 65, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2002

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