Realization of a gravity-resonance-spectroscopy technique

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 468-472

  Jenke, Tobias ^a   Geltenbort, Peter ^b   Lemmel, Hartmut ^a,b   Abele, Hartmut ^a,c,d  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLES; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATING FIELDS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; RESONANCE TECHNIQUE; ULTRA COLD NEUTRONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79958014220     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1970     Document Type: Article

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