Rotation Sensing using Tractor Atom Interferometry
Abstract
We investigate a possible realization of an ultracold-atom rotation sensor that is based on recently proposed tractor atom interferometry (TAI). An experimental design that includes generation of a Laguerre-Gaussian-beam-based "pinwheel" optical lattice and multi-loop interferometric cycles is discussed. Numerical simulations of the proposed system demonstrate TAI rotation sensitivity comparable to that of contemporary matter-wave interferometers. We analyze a regime of TAI rotation sensors in which nonadiabatic effects may hinder the system's performance. We apply quantum optimal control to devise a methodology suitable to address this nonadiabaticity. Our studies are of interest for current efforts to realize compact and robust matter-wave rotation sensors, as well as in fundamental-physics applications of TAI.
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@article{arxiv.2309.06324,
title = {Rotation Sensing using Tractor Atom Interferometry},
author = {Bineet Dash and Michael H Goerz and Alisher Duspayev and Sebastian C. Carrasco and Vladimir S. Malinovsky and Georg Raithel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06324},
year = {2023}
}