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G Varoquaux et al 2009 New J. Phys. 11 113010 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113010

How to estimate the differential acceleration in a two-species atom interferometer to test the equivalence principle

G Varoquaux1,3, R A Nyman1,4, R Geiger1, P Cheinet1, A Landragin2 and P Bouyer1

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