How to estimate the differential acceleration in a two-species atom interferometer to test the equivalence principle

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Varoquaux, G ^a,c   Nyman, R A ^a,d   Geiger, R ^a   Cheinet, P ^a   Landragin, A ^b   Bouyer, P ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY;

DIFFERENTIAL ACCELERATIONS; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRIC SIGNALS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION METHODS; WEAK EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE;

ATOMS;

EID: 72049106152     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113010     Document Type: Article

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