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Participant	Lebed, Andrei
Institution	Department of Physics, University of Arizona - 1118 East 4th Street - Tucson - Arizona - USA

Session	GT5	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Breakdown of the Weak Equivalence between Energy Content and Weight in a Weak Gravitational Field for a Quantum Body
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Abstract	It is shown that weight operator of a hydrogen atom in a weak external gravitational field in the post-Newtonian approximation of the General Relativity does not commute with its energy operator, taken in the absence of the field. Nevertheless, the weak equivalence between the expectations values of weight and energy is shown to survive at a macroscopic level for stationary quantum states. Breakdown of the weak equivalence between weight and energy at a microscopic level for stationary quantum states [1] can be experimentally detected by studying unusual electromagnetic radiation, emitted by the atoms, supported and moved in the Earth gravitational field with constant velocity, using spacecraft or satellite. [1] A.G. Lebed, preprint: arXiv: 1111.5365v1 [gr-qc] (2011).