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Atom interferometry

Also called atom interferometer, cold-atom interferometry, matter-wave interferometry

Measuring acceleration or rotation by splitting a cloud of laser-cooled atoms into matter waves and recombining them; the interference pattern reveals motion with very low drift.

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