Equation 91 · Part 11 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
Denominator: hbar
What this part means
The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
Its job in the formula
hbar occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
Full expression→Denominator: hbar→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
…and not the output of any code run for this article. It is offered as illustrative, and it carries a built-in consistency check: because = /m by definition of a recoil kick, the same number equals T/m , the ordinary recoil phase used to extract /m in precision atom-interferometry measurements through the general path-integral formalism for atomic interferometry [ 14 ] . The two expressions are algebraically identical, so this is a check that the loop construction…
Learn the underlying idea
A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [16] Atomic Interferometry Using Stimulated Raman Transitions ↗
- [14] The Feynman Path Integral Approach to Atomic Interferometry: A Tutorial ↗
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