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Quantum Systems under Gravitational Time Dilation

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The understanding of nature has been radically changed by the advent of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

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Notes

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    More technically: what foliation of space-time into space like hypersurfaces one considers.

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    While to describe internal states of the Caesium atoms, or modern high-precision atomic clocks [29] quantum theory is unquestionably required, time dilation measured with the use of such clocks depends on their centre of mass—which in all to-date experiments was consistent with a classical description.

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