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We propose a novel type of composite light-matter interferometer based on a supersolid-like phase of a driven Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to a pair of degenerate counterpropagating electromagnetic modes of an optical ring cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Karol Gietka , Farokh Mivehvar , Helmut Ritsch

We discuss the method for the measurement of the gravity acceleration g by means of Bloch oscillations of an accelerated BEC in an optical lattice. This method has a theoretical critical point due to the fact that the period of the Bloch…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-23 Andrea Sacchetti

A single-seed, module-based compact laser system is demonstrated on a transportable $^{87}\text{Rb}$-based high-precision atomic gravimeter. All the required laser frequencies for the atom interferometry are provided by free-space…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 Fong En Oon , Rainer Dumke

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…

To advance precise inertial navigation, we present a compact quantum sensor which is based on novel quantum phenomenon of the angular Bloch oscillations and measures solely the angular acceleration of slow external rotation. We investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Bernd Konrad , Maxim Efremov

Atomic interferometers measure forces and acceleration with exceptional precision. The conventional approach to atomic interferometry is to launch an atomic cloud into a ballistic trajectory and perform the wave-packet splitting in momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Jonathan Nemirovsky , Rafi Weill , Ilan Meltzer , Yoav Sagi

An analytical expression for the gravitational field of a homogeneous cylinder is derived. The phase of the atom interferometer produced by the gravity field of the set of cylinders has been calculated. The optimal values of the initial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 B. Dubetsky

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 an underground long baseline atom interferometer to study gravity at large scale. The hybrid atom-laser antenna will use several atom interferometers simultaneously interrogated by the resonant mode of an optical cavity. The…

Refined constraints on chameleon theories are calculated for atom-interferometry experiments, using a numerical approach consisting in solving for a four-region model the static and spherically symmetric Klein-Gordon equation for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Sandrine Schlogel , Sebastien Clesse , Andre Fuzfa

We propose a compact atom interferometer to measure homogeneous constant forces guiding the arms via shortcuts to adiabatic paths. For a given sensitivity, which only depends on the space-time area of the guiding paths, the cycle time can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. Rodriguez-Prieto , S. Martínez-Garaot , I. Lizuain , J. G. Muga

We focus on the fact that light-pulse atom interferometers measure the atoms' acceleration with only three data points per drop. As a result, the measured effect of the gravity gradient is systematically larger than the true one, an error…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Anna M. Nobili , Alberto Anselmi , Raffaello Pegna

A dynamic gravimeter with an atomic interferometer (AI) can perform absolute gravity measurements with high precision. AI-based dynamic gravity measurement is a type of joint measurement that uses AI sensors and a classical accelerometer.…

Recently, it has been proposed that space-based atomic sensors may be used to detect gravitational waves. These proposals describe the sensors either as clocks or as atom interferometers. Here, we seek to explore the fundamental…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 Matthew A. Norcia , Julia R. K. Cline , James K. Thompson

In this paper, we present the implementation of Bloch oscillations in an atomic interferometer to increase the separation of the two interfering paths. A numerical model, in very good agreement with the experiment, is developed. The…

Bloch oscillations (i.e., coherent acceleration of matter waves by an optical lattice) and Bragg diffraction are integrated into light-pulse atom interferometers with large momentum splitting between the interferometer arms, and hence…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 Holger Mueller , Sheng-wey Chiow , Sven Herrmann , Steven Chu

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 evaluate the sensitivity of a dual cloud atom interferometer to the measurement of vertical gravity gradient. We study the influence of most relevant experimental parameters on noise and long-term drifts. Results are also applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Sorrentino , Q. Bodart , L. Cacciapuoti , Y. -H. Lien , M. Prevedelli , G. Rosi , L. Salvi , G. M. Tino

We present a novel atom interferometer configuration that combines large momentum transfer with the enhancement of an optical resonator for the purpose of measuring gravitational strain in the horizontal directions. Using Bragg diffraction…

We propose a quantum enhanced interferometric protocol for gravimetry and force sensing using cold atoms in an optical lattice supported by a standing-wave cavity. By loading the atoms in partially delocalized Wannier-Stark states, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Anjun Chu , Peiru He , James K. Thompson , Ana Maria Rey