The CPT-violating effects on neutrons' gravitational bound state

Abstract

In this work, the CPT-violating (CPTV) interactions on neutrons' gravitational bound state are studied. With simple analytical solutions, we provide a preliminary investigation on the Lorentz-violation (LV) induced spin precession due to the $\vec{\sigma }\cdot \overrightarrow{\stackrel{~}{b}}(1+gz)$ and $\bar{b}/m_{{}_I}\vec{\sigma }\cdot \hat{\vec{p}}$ couplings, where $\overrightarrow{\stackrel{~}{b}}$ and $\bar{b}$ represent LV coefficients. The helicity-dependent couplings can induce unusual phase evolutions with position and momentum dependence. As $\overrightarrow{\stackrel{~}{b}}$ varies with time due to the Earth's motion, the spin polarization also shows a sidereal time dependence, and it may be enhanced with time for ultra-stable polarized state of neutrons. The inseparability of the spin-momentum coupling of the $\bar{b}$-term can also lead to motional dependent polarization state. With the precisely measured transition frequency between different gravitational bound states, we get a rough bound $|\overrightarrow{\stackrel{~}{b}}|<3.9\times 10^{-3}$GeV for unpolarized neutrons. If the spin-flip transition frequency can reach comparable precision in the future, the bound can be improved to the level of $10^{-24}$GeV. The test of weak equivalence principle with polarized atom may also improve it significantly.

19 pages, 4 figures

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