Detection of the earth's rotation using superfluid phase coherence

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6625, 1997, Pages 585-587

  Schwab, Keith ^a   Bruckner, Niels ^a   Packard, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLOW; GEOLOGY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

EARTH ROTATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HELIUM; SUPERFLUID PHASE COHERENCE;

EID: 0030620918     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386585a0     Document Type: Article

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