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Science 14 February 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5302, pp. 931 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5302.931
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Research News

Charles Seife

Every time a jetliner maneuvers, patterns of light and shadow in a device called an interferometer measure the change in angle. Now, photons have a rival for sensing small rotations: interfering atoms. With an atom interferometer, which takes advantage of the wavelike nature of matter described by quantum mechanics, physicists have measured rotations as subtle as a quarter of a degree per hour.

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