Equation 1 · Part 11 · The Oldest Quantum-Gravity Experiment Is a Neutron Falling
Denominator: 2 m_i
What this part means
The complete quantity below the fraction bar; it must be nonzero for this division.
Its job in the formula
2 occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
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The passage around this formula
Above a perfectly reflecting mirror, a neutron’s Schrödinger equation is about as simple as a bound-state problem gets: an infinite wall at the mirror’s surface and a linear potential rising above it, gravity playing the same role a laser trap or a magnetic bottle plays in every other cold-atom experiment. The exact solutions are Airy functions, and the allowed energies are . where is the n -th negative zero of the Airy function — 2.338, 4.088, 5.521, 6.787, and so on — and the mass has been split deliberately into a gravitational piece , which sets how hard the potential pulls, and an inertial piece , which sets how the wavefunction spreads in…
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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