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De Vries, Joel Christopher, 1971-
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De Vries, Joel Christopher, 1971-
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MIT
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Supervised by Daniel Kleppner.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2004
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mit-1721.1/41082019-04-11T09:32:30Z A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency De Vries, Joel Christopher, 1971- Supervised by Daniel Kleppner. Also issued as Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, February 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163). The Rydberg frequency, cR[infinity], sets the frequency scale for the spectrum of hydrogen atoms. From a frequency measurement of one transition in hydrogen, cR[infinity] can be extracted and the frequency of any other transition can be predicted, given that the reduced-mass, relativistic, QED, and proton structure corrections can be computed to the desired accuracy. Recent advances in optical frequency techniques applied to transitions involving low-lying states of hydrogen have decreased the uncertainty in cR[infinity], to 7.6 x 10?î?This thesis presents our measurement of cR[infinity] using millimeter-wave transitions between high-lying "circular Rydberg" states of atomic hydrogen with a principle quantum number, n, between 27 and 30. This measurement provides an independent check, in a different regime, of the optical measurements. Our measurement, cR[infinity] = 3 289 841 960 306(69) kHz with an uncertainty of 2.1 x 10?î¦?is consistent with the CODATA 98 recommended value. by Joel Christopher De Vries. 2004-03-02T18:26:18Z 2004-03-02T18:26:18Z 2001 2001 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4108 eng Technical report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics) ; 658. 166 p. 9676460 bytes application/pdf application/pdf
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A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency
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A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency
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A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency
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A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency
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A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency
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A precision millimeter-wave measurement of the Rydberg frequency
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precision millimeter wave measurement of the rydberg frequency
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4108
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