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Equation 95 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass

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mop[LG]=ℏΦ/(vrb)=mm_{\rm op}[\mathcal L_{\rm G}]=\hbar\Phi/(v_rb)=m

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Inputs and operationshbarPhi/(v_rb)=m
Result or conditionm_rm op[mathcal L_rm G]
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mopm_{\rm op}

Symbol m_rm op

mrm_rm op is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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LGL_{\rm G}

Symbol L_rm G

LrL_rm G is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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Φ\Phi

Symbol Phi

the single measured phase.

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vrv_r

Symbol v_r

vrv_r is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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bb

Symbol b

b is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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mm

Symbol m

m is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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=

The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.

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subscript

subscript

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

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This is an exact analytic evaluation of the formula derived above for stated, idealized parameters — not a simulation, not a measurement, 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 vrv_r=ℏ\hbar keffk_{\rm eff}/m by definition of a recoil kick, the same number equals ℏ\hbar keff2k_{\rm eff}^2T/m , the ordinary recoil phase used to extract ℏ\hbar/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 reproduces a quantity the field already measures by…
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This is an exact analytic evaluation of the formula derived above for stated, idealized parameters — not a simulation, not a measurement, 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 vrv_r=ℏ\hbar keffk_{\rm eff}/m by definition of a recoil kick, the same number equals ℏ\hbar keff2k_{\rm eff}^2T/m , the ordinary recoil phase used to extract ℏ\hbar/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 reproduces a quantity the field already measures by an independent route, not new physics. Inverting the formula returns mopm_{\rm op}[LG\mathcal L_{\rm G}]=ℏ\hbarΦ\Phi/(vrv_rb)=m exactly, because the phase was defined from m in the first place. That circularity is the point of this section: it isolates what an idealized, confound-free evaluation looks like, so the next two sections can show exactly what breaks the idealization.

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