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We demonstrate the sensitivity of a sensor based on an optically-pumped radio-frequency (RF) atomic magnetometer to the polarization state of the detected RF magnetic field, and measure $>$36 dB difference in amplitude sensitivity for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Vladislav Gerginov

We survey the prospective sensitivities of terrestrial and space-borne atom interferometers (AIs) to gravitational waves (GWs) generated by cosmological and astrophysical sources, and to ultralight dark matter. We discuss the backgrounds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Leonardo Badurina , Oliver Buchmueller , John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , Christopher McCabe , Ville Vaskonen

Atom interferometer (AI)-based dynamic gravimeter enable high-precision absolute gravity measurements, crucial for applications in geophysics, navigation, resource exploration, and metrology. Understanding their underlying mechanisms and…

We discuss the possibility to enhance the sensitivity of optical interferometric devices by increasing its open area using an external field gradient that act differently on the two arms of the interfer-ometers. The use of combined electric…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. Comparat

The A. Roura technique was modified to eliminate all terms in the atom interferometer phase, which are linear in the gravity-gradient tensor. The full elimination occurs if all effective wave vectors are slightly changed. The full…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 B. Dubetsky

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

Detecting gravitational waves with frequencies higher than 10 kHz requires new strategies. In previous papers, we proposed magnon gravitational wave detectors and gave the first limit on GHz gravitational waves by reinterpreting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-07 Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

We demonstrate a dual-axis accelerometer and gyroscope atom interferometer, which forms the building blocks of a six-axis inertial measurement unit. By recapturing the atoms after the interferometer sequence, we maintain a large atom number…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Akash V. Rakholia , Hayden J. McGuinness , Grant W. Biedermann

Despite being the dominant force of nature on large scales, gravity remains relatively elusive to experimental measurement. Many questions remain, such as its behavior at small scales or its role in phenomena ascribed to dark matter and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Cristian D. Panda , Matthew J. Tao , Miguel Ceja , Holger Müller

Recent advances in cold atom interferometry have cleared the path for space applications of quantum inertial sensors, whose level of stability is expected to increase dramatically with the longer interrogation times accessible in space. In…

The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Denis Martynov

Time-delay interferometry is put forward to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of space-borne gravitational wave detectors by canceling the large laser phase noise with different combinations of measured data. Based on the Michelson data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiao-Yu Lu , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

Atom interferometers employing optical cavities to enhance the beam splitter pulses promise significant advances in science and technology, notably for future gravitational wave detectors. Long cavities, on the scale of hundreds of meters,…

We show that light-pulse atom interferometry with atomic point sources and spatially resolved detection enables multi-axis (two rotation, one acceleration) precision inertial sensing at long interrogation times. Using this method, we…

Atom gravimeters are equivalent to non-multi-level corner-cube gravimeters in translating the gravity signal into the measurement result. This enables description of atom gravimeters as LTI systems. The system's impulse responses by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-27 V. D. Nagornyi

We present the realization of a compact micro-wave frequency synthesizer for an atom interferometer based on stimulated Raman transitions, applied to transportable inertial sensing. Our set-up is intended to address the hyperfine…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Jean Lautier , Michel Lours , Arnaud Landragin

The fast progress in improving the sensitivity of the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, we all have witnessed in the recent years, has propelled the scientific community to the point, when quantum behaviour of such immense measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Stefan L. Danilishin , Farid Ya. Khalili

We describe an atom interferometric gravitational wave detector design that can operate in a resonant mode for increased sensitivity. By oscillating the positions of the atomic wavepackets, this resonant detection mode allows for coherently…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

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

A new setup OGRAN-the large scale opto-acoustical gravitational detector-is described.In distinguish from know gravitational bar detectors it uses the optical interferometrical readout for a registering weak variations of gravity gradient…