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Bragg diffraction of an atomic wave packet in a retroreflective geometry with two counterpropagating optical lattices exhibits a light shift induced phase. We show that the temporal shape of the light pulse determines the behavior of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Enno Giese , Alexander Friedrich , Sven Abend , Ernst M. Rasel , Wolfgang P. Schleich

We propose a fundamentally new design strategy of light-pulsed atom interferometry (LPAI) with a single atomic beam splitter. A traditional $\pi/2$-pulse Raman beam is employed to render a small momentum transfer at the initial state. After…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Yinghang Jiang , Jiguo Wu , Junfan Zhu , Rongchun Ge , Zhiyou Zhang

In current Bose-Einstein condensate experiments, the shot-to-shot variation of atom number fluctuates up to 10%. In here, we present a procedure to suppress such fluctuations by using a nonlinear p-pi-pbar matter wave interferometer for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Nandi , A. Sizmann , J. Fortágh , R. Walser

We report on the observation of Bragg scattering at 1D atomic lattices. Cold atoms are confined by optical dipole forces at the antinodes of a standing wave generated by the two counter-propagating modes of a laser-driven high-finesse ring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Slama , C. von Cube , B. Deh , A. Ludewig , C. Zimmermann , Ph. W. Courteille

The traditional Bragg crystal diffraction experiments use X-rays, harming the participants bodies. Therefore, many universities have not offered this basic experiment. Although microwave simulation Bragg experiments can reduce harm, there…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-05-21 Qiusong Chen , Wei Hou , Song Lin , GaoFu Liu , Weiyao Jia

Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

Several theoretical waveform models have been developed over the years to capture the gravitational wave emission from the dynamical evolution of compact binary systems of neutron stars and black holes. As ground-based detectors improve…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-02 Lalit Pathak , Amit Reza , Anand S. Sengupta

Interferometers based on ultra-cold atoms enable an absolute measurement of inertial forces with unprecedented precision. However, their resolution is fundamentally restricted by quantum fluctuations. Improved resolutions with entangled or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Christophe Cassens , Bernd Meyer-Hoppe , Ernst Rasel , Carsten Klempt

We have shown via explicit analysis as well as numerical simulation the design of two large angle interferometers employing two-photon pulses. The first one uses the technique of adiabatic following in a dark state to produce a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Shahriar , T. Zelevinsky , P. R. Hemmer

We present the results of Bragg spectroscopy performed on an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate. The Bose condensate undergoes circular micro-motion in a magnetic TOP trap and the effect of this motion on the Bragg spectrum is analyzed.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Geursen , N. R. Thomas , A. C. Wilson

We present the perspective of using atom interferometry for gravitational wave (GW) detection in the mHz to about 10 Hz frequency band. We focus on light-pulse atom interferometers which have been subject to intense developments in the last…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-26 Remi Geiger

Precise determination of thermodynamic parameters in ultracold Bose gases remains challenging due to the destructive nature of conventional measurement techniques and inherent experimental uncertainties. We demonstrate a machine learning…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Jack Griffiths , Steven A. Wrathmall , Simon A. Gardiner

We use artificial intelligence (AI) to learn and infer the physics of higher order gravitational wave modes of quasi-circular, spinning, non precessing binary black hole mergers. We trained AI models using 14 million waveforms, produced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar

The properties of nonlinear interference pattern between atomic bright solitons are characterized analytically, with the aid of exact solutions of dynamical equation in mean-field approximation. It is shown that relative velocity, relative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-06 Li-Chen Zhao , Guo-Guo Xin , Zhan-Ying Yang , Wen-Li Yang

We propose and explore the feasibility of a novel Ramsey interferometer created by a trapped two-state Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) driven by dipole oscillations and gravitational sag. The BEC is formed in a pure cigar shaped compressed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Anushka Thenuwara , Andrei Sidorov

We use a coherent Bragg diffraction method to impart an external momentum to ultracold bosonic atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. This method is based on the application of a single light pulse, with conditions where…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Xinxing Liu , Xiaoji Zhou , Wei Zhang , Thibault Vogt , Bo Lu , Xuguang Yue , Xuzong Chen

Atom interferometers require both high efficiency and robust performance in their mirror pulses under experimental inhomogeneities. In this work, we demonstrated that quantum optimal control designed mirror pulse significantly enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Xueting Fang , Doudou Wang , Kun Yuan , Jie Deng , Qin Luo , Xiaochun Duan , Minkang Zhou , Lushuai Cao , Zhongkun Hu

The efficiency of an atomic interferometer in proximity of a surface is discussed. We first study which is the best choice of frequency for a pulse acting on internal atomic transitions in the same well. Then considering the modification of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 Sophie Pelisson , Riccardo Messina , Marie-Christine Angonin , Peter Wolf

We demonstrate numerically the efficient generation of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) by using a ``phase imprinting'' method. The method consist of passing a far off resonant laser pulse through an absorption plate with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Dobrek , M. Gajda , M. Lewenstein , K. Sengstock , G. Birkl , W. Ertmer

We suggest a method to create turbulence in a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By replacing in the upper half part of our box the wave function, Psi, with its complex conjugate, Psi^{*}, new negative vortices are introduced…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Eniko J. M. Madarassy