Dynamic phase shift within a falling glass cube is negligible: comment on ‘Relativistic theory of the falling retroreflector gravimeter’

@article{Svitlov2018DynamicPS,
  title={Dynamic phase shift within a falling glass cube is negligible: comment on ‘Relativistic theory of the falling retroreflector gravimeter’},
  author={Sergiy Svitlov},
  journal={Metrologia},
  year={2018},
  volume={55},
  pages={609 - 613}
}
A recent paper (Ashby 2018 Metrologia 55 1) provides a rigorous relativistic treatment of the laser interferometer with a free-falling cube retroreflector. When considering the phase shift due to the light propagation within the glass cube, the associated effect was found to be 6.8 µGal. The constant phase shift was misinterpreted in the data analysis, producing a pseudo effect. We show that the time-dependent phase shift within the glass cube causes a negligible bias of the computed gravity… 
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