Tests of Relativity by Complementary Rotating Michelson-Morley Experiments

Holger Müller, Paul Louis Stanwix, Michael Edmund Tobar, Eugene Ivanov, Peter Wolf, Sven Herrmann, Alexander Senger, Evgeny Kovalchuk, and Achim Peters
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050401 – Published 30 July 2007

Abstract

We report relativity tests based on data from two simultaneous Michelson-Morley experiments, spanning a period of more than 1 yr. Both were actively rotated on turntables. One (in Berlin, Germany) uses optical Fabry-Perot resonators made of fused silica; the other (in Perth, Australia) uses microwave whispering-gallery sapphire resonators. Within the standard model extension, we obtain simultaneous limits on Lorentz violation for electrons (5 coefficients) and photons (8) at levels down to 1016, improved by factors between 3 and 50 compared to previous work.

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  • Received 4 April 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.050401

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Holger Müller*

  • Physics Department, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA

Paul Louis Stanwix, Michael Edmund Tobar, and Eugene Ivanov

  • School of Physics, M013, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 WA, Australia

Peter Wolf

  • LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Av. de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France

Sven Herrmann, Alexander Senger, Evgeny Kovalchuk, and Achim Peters

  • Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, 10117 Berlin, Germany

  • *holgerm@stanford.edu

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Vol. 99, Iss. 5 — 3 August 2007

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