English
Related papers

Related papers: Sensitivity limits of a Raman atom interferometer …

200 papers

We demonstrate a proof-of-principle of direct Earth gravity gradient measurement with an atom interferometer-based gravity gradiomter using a single proof mass of cold 87 rubidium atoms. The atomic gradiometer is implemented in the…

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford $10 \text{m}$ atom interferometer presently under construction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-22 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

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

We show that the gravitational acceleration can be measured with the matter-wave Ramsey interferometry, by using a nitrogen-vacancy center coupled to a nano-mechanical resonator. We propose two experimental methods to realize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Xing-yan Chen , Zhang-qi Yin

We present a new measurement of the Newtonian gravitational constant G based on cold atom interferometry. Freely falling samples of laser-cooled rubidium atoms are used in a gravity gradiometer to probe the field generated by nearby source…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 G. Lamporesi , A. Bertoldi , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

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…

Atom interferometers are powerful tools for both measurements in fundamental physics and inertial sensing applications. Their performance, however, has been limited by the available interrogation time of freely falling atoms in a…

Terrestrial long-baseline atom interferometer experiments are emerging as powerful tools for probing new fundamental physics, including searches for dark matter and gravitational waves. In the frequency range relevant to these signals,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 John Carlton , Valerie Gibson , Tim Kovachy , Christopher McCabe , Jeremiah Mitchell

We present a local measurement of gravity combining Bloch oscillations and atom interferometry. With a falling distance of 0.8 mm, we achieve a sensitivity of 2x10-7 g with an integration time of 300 s. No bias associated with the Bloch…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Renée Charrière , Malo Cadoret , Nassim Zahzam , Yannick Bidel , Alexandre Bresson

In the presence of Earth gravity and gravity-gradient forces, centrifugal and Coriolis forces caused by the Earth rotation, the phase of the time-domain atom interferometers is calculated with accuracy up to the terms proportional to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Dubetsky , M. A. Kasevich

We propose and demonstrate a method for calibrating atomic trajectories in a large-area dual-atom-interferometer gyroscope. The atom trajectories are monitored by modulating and delaying the Raman transition, and they are precisely…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Zhan-Wei Yao , Si-Bin Lu , Run-Bing Li , Jun Luo , Jin Wang , Ming-Sheng Zhan

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…

The measurement precision of the static atomic gravimetry is limited by white Gaussian noise in short term, which costs previous works an inevitable integration to reach the precision demanded. Here, we propose a statistical model based on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Bo-Nan Jiang

We consider a class of proposed gravitational wave detectors based on multiple atomic interferometers separated by large baselines and referenced by common laser systems. We compute the sensitivity limits of these detectors due to intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe

Atom interferometry has become one of the most powerful technologies for precision measurements. To develop simple, precise, and versatile atom interferometers for inertial sensing, we demonstrate an atom interferometer measuring…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Xuejian Wu , Fei Zi , Jordan Dudley , Ryan J. Bilotta , Philip Canoza , Holger Müller

We study a space-based gravity gradiometer based on cold atom interferometry and its potential for the Earth's gravitational field mapping. The instrument architecture has been proposed in [Carraz et al., Microgravity Science and Technology…

We consider the matterwave interferometric measurement of atomic velocities, which forms a building block for all matterwave inertial measurements. A theoretical analysis, addressing both the laboratory and atomic frames and accounting for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Max Carey , Mohammad Belal , Matthew Himsworth , James Bateman , Tim Freegarde

Gravimetry is a well-established technique for the determination of sub-surface mass distribution needed in several fields of geoscience, and various types of gravimeters have been developed over the last 50 years. Among them, quantum…

Atomic accelerometers and gravimeters are usually based on freely-falling atoms in atomic fountains, which not only limits their size, but also their robustness to environmental factors such as tilts, magnetic fields or vibrations. Such…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Cristian D. Panda , Matt Tao , Miguel Ceja , Andrew Reynoso , Holger Müller

Matter-wave interferometers have fundamental applications for gravity experiments such as testing the equivalence principle and the quantum nature of gravity. In addition, matter-wave interferometers can be used as quantum sensors to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Meng-Zhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar