Measurements of Atomic Beam Velocities with Phase Choppers and Precision Measurements of Alkali Atomic Polarizabilities

Atom interferometers, in which de Broglie waves are coherently split and recombined to make interference fringes, now serve as precision measurement tools for several quantities in physics. Examples include measurements of Newton's constant, the fine structure constant, van der Waals potential...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hromada, Ivan Jr.
Other Authors: Cronin, Alexander D.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318837