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We review our recent Michelson-Morley (MM) and Kennedy-Thorndike (KT) experiment, which tests Lorentz invariance in the photon sector, and report first results of our ongoing atomic clock test of Lorentz invariance in the matter sector.
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Wolf, P. et al. (2006). Recent Experimental Tests of Special Relativity. In: Ehlers, J., Lämmerzahl, C. (eds) Special Relativity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34523-X_16
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