Equation 11 · Part 1 · The Corner of the Equivalence Principle No Experiment Has Touched
Symbol hateta_sup
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…states to free fall, so it only shows up in an experiment that keeps a system in superposition of two internal states long enough for gravity to act on the superposition itself, rather than on each state separately. depends on the system’s external, spatial quantum state beyond the leading order any classical trajectory would need, the component that a spatial superposition test — an atom interferometer’s two arms treated as a single quantum object rather than two separate classical paths — is…
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