Matter-wave interferometers using TAAP rings
Abstract
We present two novel matter-wave Sagnac interferometers based on ring- shaped time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAP). For both the atoms are put into a superposition of two different spin states and manipulated independently using elliptically polarized rf-fields. In the first interferometer the atoms are accelerated by spin-state-dependent forces and then travel around the ring in a matter-wave guide. In the second one the atoms are fully trapped during the entire interferometric sequence and are moved around the ring in two spin-state-dependent "buckets". Corrections to the ideal Sagnac phase are investigated for both cases. We experimentally demonstrate the key atom-optical elements of the interferometer such as the independent manipulation of two different spin states in the ring-shaped potentials under identical experimental conditions.
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@article{arxiv.1604.01212,
title = {Matter-wave interferometers using TAAP rings},
author = {Patrick Navez and Saurabh Pandey and Hector Mas and Konstantinos Poulios and Thomas Fernholz and Wolf von Klitzing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01212},
year = {2017}
}
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21+8 pages, 9 figures, 3 appendices