Equation 86 · Part 2 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
Symbol pi
What this part means
pi is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
pi is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
The Galilei loop admits an exact, non-simulated numerical check of the whole chain, because [] is precisely the recoil phase every stimulated-Raman atom interferometer already uses for its own calibration. Take a sodium atom, m=3.817510^{-26}\, , driven by a two-photon stimulated-Raman transition on the 589\, line, effective wavevector =2(2/589\,)=2.133510^{7}\, [ 16 ] . The associated recoil velocity is = /m=5.894\, . Hold the loop open for T=50\, , comparable to the short interrogation times of early stimulated-Raman interferometers, so the…
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