TESTS OF TIME-REVERSAL INVARIANCE IN ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND THE NEUTRON

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HUNTER, LR
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[1] Department of Physics, Amherst College, Amherst
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10.1126/science.252.5002.73
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Sensitive experiments have been developed that search for electric dipole moments of atoms, molecules, and the neutron. These experiments play an important role in deciding which of the myriad theoretical models correctly describes violations of the principle of time-reversal invariance.
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