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We present a method to probe real-time dynamics in quantum mesoscopic systems using Ramsey interferometry. This allows us to explore the effect of interactions on quasi-particles in the time domain. We investigate the dephasing effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Tal Goren , Karyn Le Hur , Eric Akkermans

We evaluate the performance and phase diffusion of trapped $^{87}$Rb atoms in an atom-chip sensor with Ramsey interferometry and Hahn's spin echo in the time and phase domains. We trace out how the phase uncertainty of interference fringes…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Valentin Ivannikov , Andrei I. Sidorov

We present an apparatus that applies Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields to proton spins in water molecules. The setup consists of a water circuit, a spin polarizer, a magnetically shielded interaction region with various radio…

Ramsey interferometry provides a natural way to determine the coherence time of most qubit systems. Recent experiments on quantum dots however, demonstrated that dynamical nuclear spin polarization can strongly influence the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Zhe Sun , Aymeric Delteil , Stefan Faelt , Atac Imamoglu

We theoretically study the frequency stability of an opto-mechanical radio frequency oscillator based on resonant interaction of two optical and one mechanical modes of the same optical microcavity. A generalized expression for the phase…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 A. B. Matsko , A. A. Savchenkov , L. Maleki

In this work we theoretically investigate a hybrid system of two optomechanically coupled resonators, which exhibits induced transparency. This is realized by coupling an optical ring resonator to a toroid. In the semiclassical analyses,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Zhenglu Duan , Bixuan Fan , Thomas M. Stace , G. J. Milburn , Catherine A. Holmes

Optomechanical systems combine extreme sensitivity and bandwidth in the control of mechanical motion, of interest for various applications. Integrated on a chip, actuated and detected all-optically by a single laser, they could disrupt…

Ramsey interferometry is routinely used in quantum metrology for the most sensitive measurements of optical clock frequencies. Spontaneous decay to the electromagnetic vacuum ultimately limits the interrogation time and thus sets a lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch , Claudiu Genes

Optomechanical cavities have proven to be an exceptional tool to explore fundamental and technological aspects of the interaction between mechanical and optical waves. Such interactions strongly benefit from cavities with large…

A new generation of atomic sensors using ultra-narrow optical clock transitions and composite pulses are pushing quantum engineering control to a very high level of precision for applied and fundamental physics. Here, we propose a new…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 T. Zanon-Willette , D. Wilkowski , A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin

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

Coherent wave splitting is crucial in interferometers. Normally, the waves after this splitting are of the same type. But recent progress in interaction between atom and light has led to the coherent conversion of photon to atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Cheng Qiu , Shuying Chen , L. Q. Chen , Bing Chen , Jinxian Guo , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

The influence od space-time curvature on quantum matter which can be theoretically described by covariant wave equations has not been experimentally established yet. In this paper we analyse in detail the suitability of the Ramsey atom beam…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Jürgen Audretsch , Karl-Peter Marzlin

Probing an atomic resonance without disturbing it is an ubiquitous issue in physics. This problem is critical in high-accuracy spectroscopy or for the next generation of atomic optical clocks. Ultra-high resolution frequency metrology…

We perform atom interferometry using the Zeeman sublevels of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb. The observed fringes are strongly peaked, and fringe repetition rates higher than the fundamental Ramsey frequency are found in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Sadgrove , Y. Eto , S. Sekine , H. Suzuki , T. Hirano

Hybrid quantum systems have been developed with various mechanical, optical and microwave harmonic oscillators. The coupling produces a rich library of interactions including two mode squeezing, swapping interactions, back-action evasion…

We experimentally determine the coupling strength between two strongly coupled nanomechanical modes using a Ramsey-inspired technique optimized for signals as short as four fringes. The method is applied to precisely probe the change of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Anh Tuan Le , Avishek Chowdhury , Hugo Ribeiro , Eva M. Weig

Optomechanics experiments are rapidly approaching the regime where the radiation pressure of a single photon displaces the mechanical oscillator by more than its zero-point uncertainty. We show that in this limit the power spectrum has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 A. Nunnenkamp , K. Borkje , S. M. Girvin

The Ramsey fringes formation during the excitation of topological coherent modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate by an external modulating field is considered. The Ramsey fringes appear when a series of pulses of the excitation field is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. R. F. Ramos , L. Sanz , V. I. Yukalov , V. S. Bagnato

We propose a new scheme of microwave frequency standards based on pulsed coherent optical information storage. Unlike the usual frequency reference where the Ramsey fringe is printed on the population of a certain state, we print the Ramsey…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Bo Yan , Yisheng Ma , Yuzhu Wang