Testing the equivalence principle through freely falling quantum objects

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 455-462

  Viola, Lorenza ^a   Onofrio, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 0000123087     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.455     Document Type: Article

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