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We propose a motional dynamical decoupling technique by utilizing a sequence of $\pi$-phase shifts, instead of the conventional $\pi$-pulses for spin flipping, to implement the quantum enhanced rotation sensing with a 1+2 dimensional hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 X. N. Feng , L. F. Wei

Multi-loop matter-wave interferometers are essential in quantum sensing to measure the derivatives of physical quantities in time or space. Because multi-loop interferometers require multiple reflections, imperfections of the matter-wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 L. A. Sidorenkov , R. Gautier , M. Altorio , R. Geiger , A. Landragin

We describe a method for sensing short range forces using matter wave interference in dielectric nanospheres. When compared with atom interferometers, the larger mass of the nanosphere results in reduced wave packet expansion, enabling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Andrew A. Geraci , Hart Goldman

Performing interferometry in an optical lattice formed by standing waves of light offers potential advantages over its free-space equivalents since the atoms can be confined and manipulated by the optical potential. We demonstrate such an…

We study nonlinear interferometry applied to a measurement of atomic spin and demonstrate a sensitivity that cannot be achieved by any linear-optical measurement with the same experimental resources. We use alignment-to-orientation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 R. J. Sewell , M. Napolitano , N. Behbood , G. Colangelo , F. Martin Ciurana , M. W. Mitchell

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 inelastic scatterings of matter systems, such as Raman scattering, contain rich information on mechanical vibrations like as resonant frequencies, which lead to various applications, for example, a sensor for specific molecules.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Sho Tamaki , Tomohiro Yokoyama , Hajime Ishihara

We propose a possible approach to achieve an 1/N sensitivity of Michelson interferometer by using a properly designed random phase modulation. Different from other approaches, the sensitivity improvement does not depend on increasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Fu

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of precision measurement devices, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories and axion detectors. In the shot-noise-limited regime, these resonant detectors are subject to a trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiang Li , Jiri Smetana , Amit Singh Ubhi , Joe Bentley , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

The sensitivity of laser interferometers can be pushed into regimes that enable the direct observation of quantum behaviour of mechanical oscillators. In the past, membranes with subwavelength thickness (thin films) have been proposed as…

We study in detail a peculiar configuration of the Talbot-Lau matter wave interferometer, characterised by unequal distances between the two diffraction gratings and the observation plane. We refer to this apparatus as the "asymmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Simone Sala , Marco Giammarchi , Stefano Olivares

We demonstrate an experiment which utilizes a Sagnac interferometer to measure a change in optical frequency of 129 kHz per root Hz with only 2 mW of continuous wave, single mode input power. We describe the measurement of a weak value and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

We study the effect of rotation on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in slow-light waveguide structures consisting of coupled micro-ring resonators. We show that such configurations exhibit new a type of the Sagnac effect which can…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jacob Scheuer

Quantum entanglement has the potential to revolutionize the entire field of interferometric sensing by providing many orders of magnitude improvement in interferometer sensitivity. The quantum-entangled particle interferometer approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Leo D. Didomenico , Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

The Sagnac effect is an important phase coherent effect in optical and atom interferometers where rotations of the interferometer with respect to an inertial reference frame result in a shift in the interference pattern proportional to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marko Zivkovic , Markku Jaaskelainen , Christopher P. Search , Ivana Djuric

Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation is a sensitive technique for measuring magnetic fields. Here, the shot-noise-limited magnetometric sensitivity is analyzed for the case of optically-thick media and high light power, which has been the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Rochester , D. Budker

Matter-wave interferometry of ultra-cold atoms with attractive interactions is studied at the full many-body level. First, we study how a coherent light-pulse applied to an initially-condensed solitonic system splits it into two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Oksana I. Streltsova , Alexej I. Streltsov

We investigate quantum sensing of rotation with a multi-atom Sagnac interferometer and present multi-partite entangled states to enhance the sensitivity of rotation frequency. For studying the sensitivity, we first present a Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Fei Yao , Yanming Che , Yuguo Su , Hongbin Liang , Jiancheng Pei , Xiaoguang Wang

Larmor precession of laser-polarized atoms contained in anti-relaxation-coated cells, detected via nonlinear magneto-optical rotation (NMOR) is a promising technique for a new generation of ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometers. For magnetic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Pustelny , S. M. Rochester , D. F. Jackson Kimball , V. V. Yashchuk , D. Budker , W. Gawlik

The paper presents an improved mass balancing procedure for fast rotating machinery, while it is being rotated at speeds considerably slower than the "critical speeds", where dangerously high vibration amplitudes may arise. By utilizing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Amit Dolev , Shachar Tresser , Izhak Bucher