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Hyper Ramsey-Bord\'e matter-wave interferometry for robust quantum sensors

Atomic Physics 2022-02-15 v6 Quantum Physics

Abstract

A new generation of atomic sensors using ultra-narrow optical clock transitions and composite pulses are pushing quantum engineering control to a very high level of precision for applied and fundamental physics. Here, we propose a new version of Ramsey-Bord\'e interferometry introducing arbitrary composite laser pulses with tailored pulse duration, Rabi field, detuning and phase-steps. We explore quantum metrology below the 101810^{-18} level of fractional accuracy by a fine tuning control of light excitation parameters protecting ultra-narrow optical clock transitions against residual light-shift coupled to laser-probe field fluctuation. We present, for the first time, new developments for robust hyper Ramsey-Bord\'e and Mach-Zehnder interferometers, where we protect wavepacket interferences against distortion on frequency or phase measurement related to residual Doppler effects and light-shifts coupled to a pulse area error. Quantum matter-wave sensors with composite pulses and ultra-cold sources will offer detection of inertial effects inducing phase-shifts with better accuracy, to generate hyper-robust optical clocks and improving tests of fundamental physics, to realize a new class of atomic interferometers tracking space-time gravitational waves with a very high sensitivity.

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@article{arxiv.2012.03877,
  title  = {Hyper Ramsey-Bord\'e matter-wave interferometry for robust quantum sensors},
  author = {T. Zanon-Willette and D. Wilkowski and A. V. Taichenachev and V. I. Yudin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03877},
  year   = {2022}
}

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