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We report our detailed analysis of a table-top system for the measurement of the weak-force-induced electric dipole moment of a ground state hyperfine transition carried out in an atomic beam geometry. We describe an experimental…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 J. Choi , D. S. Elliott

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…

The kinetic energy of an atom recoiling due to absorption of a photon was measured as a frequency using an interferometric technique called ``contrast interferometry''. Optical standing wave pulses were used as atom-optical elements to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Gupta , K. Dieckmann , Z. Hadzibabic , D. E. Pritchard

The optical interferometry has been widely used in various high precision applications. Usually, the minimum precision of an interferometry is limited by various technique noises in practice. To suppress such kind of noises, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Guihua Zeng

We present the realization of a compact micro-wave frequency synthesizer for an atom interferometer based on stimulated Raman transitions, applied to transportable inertial sensing. Our set-up is intended to address the hyperfine…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Jean Lautier , Michel Lours , Arnaud Landragin

We demonstrate a dual-axis accelerometer and gyroscope atom interferometer, which forms the building blocks of a six-axis inertial measurement unit. By recapturing the atoms after the interferometer sequence, we maintain a large atom number…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Akash V. Rakholia , Hayden J. McGuinness , Grant W. Biedermann

Engineering quantum particle systems, such as quantum simulators and quantum cellular automata, relies on full coherent control of quantum paths at the single particle level. Here we present an atom interferometer operating with single…

Inertial sensors based on cold atom interferometry exhibit many interesting features for applications related to inertial navigation, particularly in terms of sensitivity and long-term stability. However, at present the typical atom…

We propose a new type of gauge-invariant expansion of the ionization probability amplitudes of atoms by short pulses of electromagnetic radiation. Contrary to previous gauge-invariant approaches to this problem it does not require different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Bechler , M. Ślȩczka

In a recent letter, Brunner and Simon propose an interferometric scheme using imaginary weak values with a frequency-domain analysis to outperform standard interferometry in longitudinal phase shifts [N. Brunner and C. Simon, Phys. Rev.…

We propose and analyse a method that allows for the production of squeezed states of the atomic center-of-mass motion that can be injected into an atom interferometer. Our scheme employs dispersive probing in a ring resonator on a narrow…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Leonardo Salvi , Nicola Poli , Vladan Vuletic , Guglielmo M. Tino

We report entanglement of a single atom's hyperfine spin state with its motional state in a timescale of less than 3 ns. We engineer a short train of intense laser pulses to impart a spin-dependent momentum transfer of +/- 2 hbar k. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 J. Mizrahi , C. Senko , B. Neyenhuis , K. G. Johnson , W. C. Campbell , C. W. S. Conover , C. Monroe

Atom interferometry has become one of the most powerful technologies for precision measurements. To develop simple, precise, and versatile atom interferometers for inertial sensing, we demonstrate an atom interferometer measuring…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Xuejian Wu , Fei Zi , Jordan Dudley , Ryan J. Bilotta , Philip Canoza , Holger Müller

Atomic interferometers measure phase differences along paths with exceptional precision. Tweezer interferometry represents a novel approach for this measurement by guiding particles along predefined trajectories. This study explores the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yehoshua Winsten , Doron Cohen , Yoav Sagi

We demonstrate a two-dimensional atom interferometer in a harmonic magnetic waveguide using a Bose-Einstein condensate. Such an interferometer could measure rotation using the Sagnac effect. Compared to free space interferometers, larger…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 J. H. T. Burke , C. A. Sackett

We demonstrate a high data-rate light-pulse atom interferometer for measuring acceleration. The device is optimized to operate at rates between 50 Hz to 330 Hz with sensitivities of 0.57 {\mu}g/rtHz to 36.7 {\mu}g/rtHz, respectively. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Hayden J. McGuinness , Akash V. Rakholia , Grant W. Biedermann

We present a compact, fibre-coupled interferometer with high sensitivity and a large working range. We propose to use this interferometer as a readout mechanism for future inertial sensors, removing a major limiting noise source, and in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-23 S. J. Cooper , A. C. Green , C. Collins , D. Hoyland , C. C. Speake , A. Freise , C. M. Mow-Lowry

Entanglement can improve the measurement precision of quantum sensors beyond the shot noise limit. Neutral atoms, the basis of some of the most precise and accurate optical clocks and interferometers, do not naturally exhibit all-to-all…

We demonstrate an atom interferometer measurement protocol compatible with operation on a dynamic platform. Our method employs two open interferometers, derived from the same atomic source, with different interrogation times to eliminate…

We propose and numerically investigate a scalable ring trap for cold atoms that surmounts problems of roughness of the potential and end--effects of trap wires. A stable trapping potential is formed about an electrically isolated,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. F. Griffin , E. Riis , A. S. Arnold