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The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO has impressively launched the novel field of gravitational astronomy and it allowed us to glimpse at exciting objects we could so far only speculate about. Further sensitivity…

A modified-weak-value-amplification(MWVA) technique of measuring the mirror's velocity based on the Vernier-effect has been proposed. We have demonstrated with sensitivity-enhanced and the higher signal-to-noise ratio(${\rm SNR}$) by using…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-13 Jing-Hui Huang , Fei-Fan He , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wang , Xiang-Yun Hu

Intensity interferometry exploits a quantum optical effect in order to measure objects with extremely small angular scales. The first experiment to use this technique was the Narrabri intensity interferometer, which was successfully used in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 W. J. de Wit , S. Le Bohec , J. A. Hinton , R. , J. White , M. K. Daniel , J. Holder

Light-pulse atom interferometers serve as tools for high-precision metrology and are targeting measurements of relativistic effects. This development is facilitated by extended interrogation times and large-momentum-transfer techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Christian Niehof , Daniel Derr , Enno Giese

Weak amplification is a signal enhancement technique which is used to measure tiny changes that otherwise cannot be determined because of technical limitations. It is based on the existence of a special type of interaction which couples a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan P. Torres , Graciana Puentes , Nathaniel Hermosa , Luis Jose Salazar-Serrano

A near-field motion parameter estimation method is proposed. In contract to far-field sensing systems, the near-field sensing system leverages spherical-wave characteristics to enable full-vector location and velocity estimation. Despite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Chunwei Meng , Zhaolin Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiyong Feng

We report on the implementation of ultracold atoms as a source in a state of the art atom gravimeter. We perform gravity measurements with 10 nm/s 2 statistical uncertainties in a so-far unexplored temperature range for such a high accuracy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 R Karcher , A Imanaliev , S. Merlet , Franck Pereira dos Santos

We present a new approach for image reconstruction and weak lensing measurements with interferometers. Based on the shapelet formalism presented in Refregier (2001), object images are decomposed into orthonormal Hermite basis functions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzu-Ching Chang , Alexandre Refregier

Weak value amplification is a classical phenomenon that can enhance the sensitivity of a measurement through clever use of interference. The most well-known paradigm of weak value amplification makes use of a Gaussian pulse, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Filippo M Miatto

A novel interferometric method - SLIVER (Super Localization by Image inVERsion interferometry) - is proposed for estimating the separation of two incoherent point sources with a mean squared error that does not deteriorate as the sources…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-16 Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

Wavefront distortions are a leading source of systematic uncertainty in light-pulse atom interferometry, limiting absolute measurements of gravitational acceleration at the 30 nm/s$^2$ level. Here, we demonstrate in situ spatially resolved…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Joseph Junca , John Kitching , William McGehee

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

Magneto-optical properties of materials are utilized in numerous applications both in scientific research and industries. The novel properties of these materials can be further investigated by performing metrology in the infrared wavelength…

In a recent article (New Journal of Physics 9, 165, 2007), Wiseman has proposed the use of so-called weak measurements for the determination of the velocity of a quantum particle at a given position, and has shown that according to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Detlef Duerr , Sheldon Goldstein , Nino Zanghi

We propose and study a weak value (WV) protocol in the context of a solid state setup, specifically, an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This is the first specific proposal to measure both the real and imaginary part (i.e., complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vadim Shpitalnik , Yuval Gefen , Alessandro Romito

Techniques like speckle holography and shearography are rarely applied due to the complexity of instrument setup and lack of automated result analysis, despite their potential. By simulating speckle interferometric outcomes, we seek to…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jessica Plassmann , Michael Schuth , Georg von Freymann

Weak measurement is a novel technique for parameter estimation with higher precision. In this paper we develop a general theory for the parameter estimation based on weak measurement technique with arbitrary postselection. The previous weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Chen Fang , Jing-Zheng Huang , Yang Yu , Qin-Zheng Li , Guihua Zeng

The accelerated expansion of the universe motivates a wide class of scalar field theories that modify gravity on large scales. In regions where the weak field limit of General Relativity has been confirmed by experiment, such theories need…

Atom interferometry is a rapidly advancing field and this Letter proposes an experiment based on existing technology that can search for new short distance forces. With current technology it is possible to improve the sensitivity by up to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jay G. Wacker

We consider tests of short-distance modifications of gravity based on neutron interferometry in the scenario of large extra dimensions. Avoiding the non-computability problem in the calculation of the internal gravitational potential of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 J. M. Rocha , F. Dahia