Phys. Rev. D 71, 025004 (2005) [15 pages]New methods of testing Lorentz violation in electrodynamicsSee Also: Erratum Received 1 September 2004; published 7 January 2005 We investigate experiments that are sensitive to the scalar and parity-odd coefficients for Lorentz violation in the photon sector of the standard model extension (SME). We show that of the classic tests of special relativity, Ives-Stilwell (IS) experiments are sensitive to the scalar coefficient, but at only parts in 105 for the state-of-the-art experiment. We then propose asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers with different electromagnetic properties in the two arms, including recycling techniques based on travelling wave resonators to improve the sensitivity. With present technology we estimate that the scalar and parity-odd coefficients may be measured with a sensitivity better than parts in 1011 and 1015 respectively. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.025004
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.025004
PACS:
03.30.+p, 06.30.Ft, 11.30.Cp
See AlsoErratum: Michael Hohensee, Alex Glenday, Chih-Hao Li, Michael Edmund Tobar, and Peter Wolf, Erratum: New methods of testing Lorentz violation in electrodynamics [Phys. Rev. D 71, 025004 (2005)], Phys. Rev. D 75, 049902 (2007). |
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