Testing Atom and Neutron Neutrality with Atom Interferometry

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We propose an atom-interferometry experiment based on the scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect which detects an atom charge at the 10^{-28}e level, and improves the current laboratory limits by 8 orders of magnitude.

• This setup independently probes neutron charges down to 10^{-28}e, 7 orders of magnitude below current bounds.