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We investigate the question whether Michelson type interferometry is possible if the role of the beam splitter is played by a spontaneous process. This question arises from an inspection of trajectories of atoms bouncing inelastically from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Cornelussen , R. J. C. Spreeuw , H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell

We examine the performance of a quantum phase gate implemented with cold neutral atoms in microtraps, when anharmonic traps are employed and the effects of finite temperature are also taken into account. Both the anharmonicity and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Negretti , T. Calarco , M. A. Cirone , A. Recati

Atomic Kapitza-Dirac Bragg regime scattering is a multiphoton process in which a neutral atom undergoes a change of momentum through an interaction with a coherent light source. When the Bragg conditions are met, the outgoing atom beams are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Dylan Manna

The ring interferometer with zero optical path difference known as Sagnac one is offered with a diffraction splitting of the entering light beam. As the beamsplitter, a transmission holographic Bragg grating is used. Conditions of normal…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 E. A. Tikhonov , A. K. Lyamets

The cloud of cold atoms produced by a Magneto-Optical Trap is known to exhibit instabilities. We examine in this paper in which limits it could be possible to realize an experimental trap similar to the configurations studied theoretically,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rudy Romain , Philippe Verkerk , Daniel Hennequin

Tune-out wavelengths measured with an atom interferometer are sensitive to laboratory rotation rates because of the Sagnac effect, vector polarizability, and dispersion compensation. We observed shifts in measured tune-out wavelengths as…

One of the main residual limitations of inertial sensors based on atom interferometry stems from laser beam distortions, which cause parasitic phase shifts and non-homogeneous matter-light couplings. Here we present numerical simulations,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Louis Pagot , Sébastien Merlet , Leonid A Sidorenkov , Franck Pereira dos Santos

Atom interferometers are used in a variety of applications, from measuring gravity and gravity gradients in the field to performing tests of fundamental physics in the lab. One method of increasing interferometer sensitivity is to produce a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jack Roth , Andrew Christensen , Madeline Bernstein , Yuno Iwasaki , Holger Mueller

We theoretically consider the effect of the atomic source's momentum width on the efficiency of Bragg mirrors and beamsplitters and, more generally, on the phase sensitivity of Bragg pulse atom interferometers. By numerical optimization, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 Stuart S. Szigeti , John E. Debs , Joseph J. Hope , Nicholas P. Robins , John D. Close

Atom interferometers are very sensitive to accelerations and rotations. This property, which has some very interesting applications, induces a deleterious phase noise due to the seismic noise of the laboratory and this phase noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Miffre , M. Jacquey , M. Büchner , G. Trénec , J. Vigué

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 influence of a tight isotropic harmonic trap on photoassociation of two ultracold alkali atoms forming a homonuclear diatomic is investigated using realistic atomic interaction potentials. Confinement of the initial atom pair due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Grishkevich , Alejandro Saenz

We present a scheme that uses Ramsey interferometry to directly probe the Wigner function of a neutral atom confined in an optical trap. The proposed scheme relies on the well-established fact that the Wigner function at a given point…

We perform a comparative study of the phase noise induced in the lasers used for Bragg diffraction in a Bose-Einstein condensate-based quantum gravimeter where the Bragg beams are generated using two different configurations. In one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Pranab Dutta , S. Sagar Maurya , Korak Biswas , Kushal Patel , Umakant D. Rapol

We propose atom interferometers based on quantum droplet (QD), which is also being reported as a superior platform for interferometry. The emphasis has been given to harmonic-oscillator (HO) or ring-shaped potentials. In the HO trap, a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-17 Sriganapathy Raghav , Boris Malomed , Utpal Roy

Using a thermal gas, we model the signal of a trapped interferometer. This interferometer uses two short laser pulses, separated by time T, which act as a phase grating for the matter waves. Near time 2T, there is an echo in the cloud's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Eric Imhof , James Stickney , Matthew Squires

We study a one-dimensional chain of identical atoms with two electronic orbitals and two electrons per atom, subject to an external oscillating pressure that periodically modulates the lattice spacing. This leads to time-dependent intra-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Anwesha Chattopadhyay

Using cold 87Rb atoms trapped in a 1D-optical lattice, atomic interferometers involving coherent superpositions between different Wannier-Stark atomic states are realized. Two di fferent kinds of trapped interferometer schemes are…

We study Bragg scattering at 1D atomic lattices. Cold atoms are confined by optical dipole forces at the antinodes of a standing wave generated inside a laser-driven cavity. The atoms arrange themselves into an array of lens-shaped layers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Slama , C. von Cube , M. Kohler , C. Zimmermann , Ph. W. Courteille

We present the first experimental confirmation of the so-called "self-phaselocked delay interferometry". This laser frequency stabilization technique consists basically in comparing the prompt laser signal with a delayed version of itself…