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Equation 22 · Part 1 · The Corner of the Equivalence Principle No Experiment Has Touched

Symbol eta_cl

ηcl\eta_{cl}
ηcl\eta_{cl}

What this part means

the these bound a combination of.

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etaca_cl is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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Because rubidium and potassium differ in composition rather than internal quantum state, these bound a combination of ηcl\eta_{cl} and η^diag\hat\eta_{diag} , not the coherence or entanglement pieces.

The passage around this formula

Lay all of it out in one table, rows for experiments and columns for the five components, and four columns get real entries: ηcl\eta_{cl} constrained at the 10^{-15} level by MICROSCOPE, η^diag\hat\eta_{diag} constrained by every dual-species and clock test in the list, η^coh\hat\eta_{coh} constrained at the low- 10^{-9} level by Rosi and colleagues’ internal-superposition test, η^sup\hat\eta_{sup} constrained by Overstreet and colleagues’…

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