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Equation 95 · Part 8 · 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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What this part means

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.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

The passage around this formula

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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Learn the underlying idea

A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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