A quantum scattering interferometer

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7138, 2007, Pages 892-895

  Hart, Russell A ^a   Xu, Xinye ^a,b   Legere, Ronald ^a,c   Gibble, Kurt ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

EID: 34247506358     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05680     Document Type: Article

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