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Focus: Measuring Gravity with an Atom Chip

Michael Schirber

Published Nov 11, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

A new gravity-measuring device uses ultracold atoms generated by a centimeter-wide atom chip, which might lead to a shoebox-sized gadget.

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