Measurement of Gravity and Gauge Fields using Quantum Mechanical Probes
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Abstract
It is well known that, historically, many important advances in physics were due to the application of the operational procedure. By this we mean the method which regards as physically important only those quantities that can, at least in principle, be experimentally observed. For example, the consideration of the experimental procedures in Newtonian physics for determining the inertial mass and the passive gravitational mass, which happen to be the same, led Einstein to adopt the now familiar curved space-time description of physics that made the latter mass unnecessary. Also, the physical importance attached by Bohr and Heisenberg to the observed spectral lines of atoms led them to disregard the unobserved (now classical) trajectories of the electron in an atom and instead focus on states of definite energies which are physically meaningful since the energy differences are observable.
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Gauge Field Josephson Junction Parallel Transport Inertial Mass Coherent Beam
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