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Sagnac interferometers with massive particles promise unique advantages in achieving high precision measurements of rotation rates over their optical counterparts. Recent proposals and experiments are exploring non-ballistic Sagnac…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Yijia Zhou , Igor Lesanovsky , Thomas Fernholz , Weibin Li

We present a compact and transportable inertial sensor for precision sensing of rotations and accelerations. The sensor consists of a dual Mach-Zehnder-type atom interferometer operated with laser-cooled $^{87}$Rb. Raman processes are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Müller , M. Gilowski , M. Zaiser , T. Wendrich , W. Ertmer , E. M. Rasel

Bragg interferometers, operating using pseudospin-1/2 systems composed of two momentum states, have become a mature technology for precision measurements. State-of-the-art Bragg interferometers are rapidly surpassing technical limitations…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 Athreya Shankar , Leonardo Salvi , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Nicola Poli , Murray J Holland

Active interferometers are designed to enhance phase sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit by generating entanglement inside the interferometer. An atomic version of such a device can be constructed by means of a spinor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Michael Kastner , Vincent Menet , Johannes N. Kriel

Cold-atom interferometry is a powerful tool for high-precision measurements of the quantum properties of atoms, many-body interactions and gravity. Further enhancement of sensitivity and reduction of complexity of these devices are crucial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 Jovana Petrovic , Ivan Herrera , Pietro Lombardi , Francesco S. Cataliotti

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

The exquisite precision of atom interferometers has sparked the interest of a large community for use cases ranging from fundamental physics to geodesy and inertial navigation. However, their practical use for onboard applications is still…

A trapped-atom interferometer was demonstrated using gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates coherently split by deforming an optical single-well potential into a double-well potential. The relative phase between the two condensates was…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Shin , M. Saba , T. A. Pasquini , W. Ketterle , D. E. Pritchard , A. E. Leanhardt

Progress in testing fundamental physics relies on our ability to measure exceedingly small physical quantities. Using a $^{40}$Ca$^{+}$ trapped ion system as an example we show that an exceedingly weak synthetic magnetic field (at the scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Sounok Ghosh , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Daniel R. Terno , Sai Vinjanampathy

We sense the motion of a trapped atomic ion using a sequence of state-dependent ultrafast momentum kicks. We use this atom interferometer to characterize a nearly-pure quantum state with $n=1$ phonon and accurately measure thermal states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 K. G. Johnson , B. Neyenhuis , J. Mizrahi , J. D. Wong-Campos , C. Monroe

Atomic interferometry in optical lattices is a new trend of developing practical quantum gravimeter. Here, we propose a compact and portable gravimetry scheme with an ensemble of ultracold atoms in gravitationally tilted spin-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Yongguan Ke , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Bo Lu , Chaohong Lee

Light, weakly coupled bosonic particles such as axions can mediate long range monopole-dipole interactions between matter and spins. We propose a new experimental method using atom interferometry to detect such a force on a freely falling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Mahiro Abe , Jason M. Hogan , David E. Kaplan , Chris Overstreet , Surjeet Rajendran

The periodicity inherent to any interferometric signal entails a fundamental trade-off between sensitivity and dynamic range of interferometry-based sensors. Here we develop a methodology for significantly extending the dynamic range of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Dimitry Yankelev , Chen Avinadav , Nir Davidson , Ofer Firstenberg

We study the time-evolution of an optically trapped spinor Bose-Einstein condensate under the influence of a dominating magnetic bias field in the z-direction, and a perpendicular smaller field that couples the spinor states. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-03 R. Vasile , H. Makela , K. -A. Suominen

Compared to light interferometers, the flux in cold-atom interferometers is low and the associated shot noise large. Sensitivities beyond these limitations require the preparation of entangled atoms in different momentum modes. Here, we…

Precision interferometry with atomic wavepackets confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice is an emergent paradigm in quantum sensing of forces and fields, with applications in gravimetry, accelerometry, geophysics, and fundamental…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-28 Emmett Hough , Tahiyat Rahman , Forest Tschirhart , Subhadeep Gupta

It is a commonly stated that the acceleration sensitivity of an atom interferometer is proportional to the space-time area enclosed between the two interfering arms. Here we derive the interferometric phase shift for an extensive class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Gordon D. McDonald , Carlos C. N. Kuhn

This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formalism that accurately describes realistic, non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Julian Günther , Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siemß , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

Atom interferometers offer excellent sensitivity to gravitational and inertial signals but have limited dynamic range. We introduce a scheme that improves on this trade-off by a factor of 50 using composite fringes, obtained from sets of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Chen Avinadav , Dimitry Yankelev , Ofer Firstenberg , Nir Davidson

We experimentally implement circuits of one and two mode operations on two motional modes of a single trapped ion. This is achieved by implementing the required displacement, squeezing, two-mode squeezing, and beamsplitter operations using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 J. Metzner , A. Quinn , S. Brudney , I. D. Moore , S. C. Burd , D. J. Wineland , D. T. C Allcock