Since the first appearance of general relativity in 1916, various experiments have been conducted to test the theory. Due to the weakness of the interactions involved, all of the documented tests were carried out in a gravitational field generated by objects of an astronomical scale. We propose an idea for an experiment that could detect purely general-relativistic effects in a lab-generated gravitational field. It is shown that a set of dense rapidly-revolving cylinders produce a frame-dragging effect substantial enough to be two orders of magnitude away from the observable range of the next generation of atomic interferometers. The metric tensor due to a uniform rotating axisymmetric body in the weak-field limit is calculated and the phase shift formula for the interferometer is derived. This article is meant to demonstrate feasibility of the concept and stimulate further research into the field of low-scale experiments in general relativity. It is by no means a fully developed experiment proposal.
Detecting Free-Mass Common-Mode Motion Induced by Incident Gravitational Waves: Testing General Relativity and Source Direction via Fox-Smith and Michelson Interferometers
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Hohensee、Chu、Peters和Müller对我们的论文“Does an atom interferometer test the gravitational redshift at the Compton frequency？”提交了一份评论（arXiv：1112.6039 [gr-qc]）。，Classical and量子引力28，145017（2011），arXiv：1009.2485 [gr-qc].在这里，我们回答这个评论，并表明，我们的论文的主要结果，即原子干涉重力仪不测试在康普顿频率的引力红移，仍然有效。
