Atom interferometer measurement of the newtonian constant of gravity

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5808, 2007, Pages 74-77

  Fixler, J B ^a   Foster, G T ^b   McGuirk, J M ^c   Kasevich, M A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CESIUM; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITY FIELD; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAD;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 33846671652     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135459     Document Type: Article

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