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The coherent manipulation of a quantum wave is at the core of quantum sensing. For instance, atom interferometers require linear splitting and recombination processes to map the accumulated phase shift into a measurable population signal.…

We present a Raman atom interferometer using large momentum transfer without reversing the direction of the effective wavevector ($k$-reversal). More specifically, we use a microwave $\pi$/2 pulse to manipulate the spin state of $^{87}$Rb…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Guanchen Peng , Bryony Lanigan , R. Shah , J. Lim , A. Kaushik , J. P. Cotter , E. A. Hinds , B. E. Sauer

We study the propagation of cold-atom wave packets in an interferometer with a Mach-Zehnder topology based on the dynamical phase of Bloch oscillation in a weakly forced optical lattice with a narrow potential barrier that functions as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-13 Uri London , Omri Gat

Atoms undergoing Bloch oscillations (BOs) in an accelerating optical lattice acquire momentum of two photon recoils per BO. This technique provides a large momentum transfer tool for atom optics, but its full exploitation for atom…

We formulate a robust optimal control algorithm to synthesize minimum energy pulses that can transfer a cold atom system into various momentum states. The algorithm uses adaptive linearization of the evolution operator and sequential…

In a retroreflective scheme atomic Raman diffraction adopts some of the properties of Bragg diffraction due to additional couplings to off-resonant momenta. As a consequence, double Raman diffraction has to be performed in a Bragg-type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Sabrina Hartmann , Jens Jenewein , Sven Abend , Albert Roura , Enno Giese

Atomic three-grating Mach-Zehnder interferometry constitutes an important tool to probe fundamental aspects of the quantum theory. There is, however, a remarkable gap in the literature between the oversimplified models and robust numerical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 A. S. Sanz , M. Davidovic , M. Bozic

We show that it is possible to reach the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the phase estimation using two independently prepared Bose-Einstein condensates as an input of an interferometer. In this scenario, the quantum correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Wasak , P. Szańkowski , J. Chwedeńczuk

We study the fringe visibility and the distinguishability of a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer with an asymmetric beam splitter. Both the fringe visibility V and the distinguishability D are affected by the input state of the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Yanjun Liu , Jing Lu , Zhihui Peng , Lan Zhou , Dongning Zheng

We describe a light-pulse atom interferometer that is suitable for any species of atom and even for electrons and protons as well as their antiparticles, in particular for testing the Einstein equivalence principle with antihydrogen. The…

We propose a scheme for trapped atom interferometry using an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. The condensate is controlled and spatially split in two confined external momentum modes through a series Bragg pulses. The proposed scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Robin Corgier , Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

We present the first realisation of a solitonic atom interferometer. A Bose-Einstein condensate of $1\times10^4$ atoms of rubidium-85 is loaded into a horizontal optical waveguide. Through the use of a Feshbach resonance, the $s$-wave…

We describe a resonantly enhanced Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) that can be operated over a wide temperature range of 55C without being actively biased, while providing a significant resonant enhancement of 6.8 at the nominal wavelength /…

Photonic quantum technologies enter a new phase when realized in photonic integrated circuits, leading to a great advance in practical applications. In the pursuit of high integration density and low circuit complexity, ultracompact devices…

By employing the equivalent of a knife-edge measurement for matter-waves, we are able to characterize ultra-low momentum widths. We measure a momentum width corresponding to an effective temperature of 0.9 $\pm$ 0.2 nK, limited only by our…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Ramón Ramos , David Spierings , Shreyas Potnis , Aephraim M. Steinberg

We demonstrate Ramsey-Bord\'e (RB) atom interferometry for high performance laser stabilization with fractional frequency instability $<2 \times 10^{-16}$ for timescales between 10 and 1000s. The RB spectroscopy laser interrogates two…

The recent development of phase-grating moir\'e neutron interferometry promises a wide range of impactful experiments from dark-field imaging of material microstructure to precise measurements of fundamental constants. However, the contrast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-13 B. Heacock , D. Sarenac , D. G. Cory , M. G. Huber , D. S. Hussey , C. Kapahi , H. Miao , H. Wen , D. A. Pushin

We demonstrate an atomic interferometer in which the atom passes through a single-zone optical beam, consisting of a pair of bichromatic counter-propagating fields. During the passage, the atomic wave packets in two distinct internal states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Shahriar , Y. Tan , M. Jheeta , J. Morzinksi , P. R. Hemmer , P. Pradhan

Interferometry provides one of the possible routes to ultra-high angular resolution for X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. Sub-micro-arc-second angular resolution, necessary to achieve objectives such as imaging the regions around the event…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-31 G. K. Skinner , J. F. Krizmanic

We propose a Heisenberg-limited quantum interferometer whose input is twin optical beams from which one or more photons have been indistinguishably subtracted. Such an interferometer can yield Heisenberg-limited performance while at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Miller Eaton , Rajveer Nehra , Aye Win , Olivier Pfister