Antimatter Interferometry for Gravity Measurements
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Antimatter interferometry for gravity measurements.
We describe a light-pulse atom interferometer that is suitable for any species of atom and even for electrons and protons as well as their antiparticles, in particular, for testing the Einstein equivalence principle with antihydrogen. The design obviates the need for resonant lasers through far-off resonant Bragg beam splitters and makes efficient use of scarce atoms by magnetic confinement and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.121102