Measurement of gravitational acceleration by dropping atoms

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6747, 1999, Pages 849-852

  Peters, Achim ^a   Chung, Keng Yeow ^a   Chu, Steven ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETER; LASER; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0012068814     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23655     Document Type: Article

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