Testing general relativity with atom interferometry.

@article{Dimopoulos2007TestingGR,
  title={Testing general relativity with atom interferometry.},
  author={Savas Dimopoulos and Peter W. Graham and Jason M. Hogan and Mark A. Kasevich},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2007},
  volume={98 11},
  pages={
          111102
        }
}
The unprecedented precision of atom interferometry will soon lead to laboratory tests of general relativity to levels that will rival or exceed those reached by astrophysical observations. We propose such an experiment that will initially test the equivalence principle to 1 part in 10(15) (300 times better than the current limit), and 1 part in 10(17) in the future. It will also probe general relativistic effects - such as the nonlinear three-graviton coupling, the gravity of an atom's kinetic… 
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