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The Sagnac time delay and the corresponding Sagnac phase shift, for relativistic matter and electromagnetic beams counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, are deduced on the ground of relativistic kinematics. This purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Guido Rizzi , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

The light--matter-wave Sagnac interferometer based on ultra-slow light proposed recently in (Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 253201 (2004)) is analyzed in detail. In particular the effect of confining potentials is examined and it is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. E. Zimmer , M. Fleischhauer

We describe a matter-wave Sagnac interferometer using Bose condensed atoms confined in a time-orbiting potential trap. Compared to our previous implementation [Moan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120403 (2020)], our new apparatus provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 M. Beydler , E. R. Moan , Z. Luo , Z. Chu , C. A. Sackett

We report on a study of the long-term stability and absolute accuracy of an atom interferometer gyroscope. This study included the implementation of an electro-optical technique to reverse the vector area of the interferometer for reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. S. Durfee , Y. K. Shaham , M. A. Kasevich

We present a second-quantized field theory of massive spin one-half particles or antiparticles in the presence of a weak gravitational field treated as a spin two external field in a flat Minkowski background. We solve the difficulties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Christian J. Bordé , Jean-Claude Houard , Alain Karasiewicz

The ability to interferometrically detect inertial rotations via the Sagnac effect has been a strong stimulus for the development of atom interferometry because of the potential 10^{10} enhancement of the rotational phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chris P. Search , John R. E. Toland , Marko Zivkovic

With a Michelson interferometer using a phase-conjugate mirror (PCM) that reverses the uniform phase shift in a light path, we can conduct a first-order experiment of Special Relativity. Utilization of the PCM changes the basic concepts of…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ruyong Wang , Yi Zheng , Aiping Yao

The observation of the Sagnac effect for massive material particles offers a significant enhancement in sensitivity when compared to optical interferometers with equal area and angular rotation velocity. For this reason, there have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 A. Yu. Fesh , Yu. V. Shtanov , S. G. Sharapov

We have constructed a counterpropagating optical tweezers setup embedded in a Sagnac interferometer in order to increase the sensitivity of position tracking for particles in the geometrical optics regime. Enhanced position determination…

The phase shift due to the Sagnac Effect, for relativistic matter and electromagnetic beams, counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, is deduced using two different approaches. From one hand, we show that the relativistic law of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guido Rizzi , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We describe a quantum perturbative approach to evaluating the phase shift of an atom interferometer in a weakly anharmonic trap. This provides a simple way to evaluate quantum corrections to the standard semi-classical approximation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 W. LaRow , M. Edwards , C. A. Sackett

In this paper we investigate the Sagnac effect by calculating the difference in travel time and phase shift observed for photon beams counter--propagating in a rotating interferometer on a BTZ black hole solution in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Ángel Rincón , J. R. Villanueva

We study the amplification of rotation velocity with the Sagnac interferometer based on the concept of weak-value amplification. By using a different scheme to perform the Sagnac interferometer with the probe in momentum space, we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jing-Hui Huang , Xue-Ying Duan , Xiang-Yun Hu

The non-reciprocity of Sagnac interferometer provides ultra-high sensitivity for parameter estimation and offers a wide range of applications, especially for optical fiber sensing. In this work, we study a new type of non-reciprocity…

Quantum information processing with geometric features of quantum states may provide promising noise-resilient schemes for quantum metrology. In this work, we theoretically explore phase-space geometric Sagnac interferometers with trapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Yanming Che , Fei Yao , Hongbin Liang , Guolong Li , Xiaoguang Wang

We study the theory of, and propose an experimental design for, a Sagnac tractor atom interferometer based on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The atoms are trapped in counter-rotating azimuthal optical lattices, formed by interfering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Lefeng Zhou , Anne Graf , Georg Raithel

We describe a weak value inspired phase amplification technique in a Sagnac interferometer. We monitor the relative phase between two paths of a slightly misaligned interferometer by measuring the average position of a split-Gaussian mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Nathan S. Williams , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

We present a special-relativistic analysis of deformable interferometers where counter propagating beams share a common optical path. The optical path is allowed to change rather arbitrarily and need not be stationary. We show that, in the…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-28 Amos Ori , Joseph E. Avron

The phase shift a neutron interferometer caused by the gravitational field and the rotation of the earth is derived in a unified way from the standpoint of general relativity. General relativistic quantum interference effects in the slowly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-02 A. I. Mamadjanov , A. A. Hakimov , S. R. Tojiev

Inertial sensors based on cold atoms have great potential for navigation, geodesy, or fundamental physics. Similar to the Sagnac effect, their sensitivity increases with the space-time area enclosed by the interferometer. Here, we introduce…