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Localizing sources on the sky is crucial for realizing the full potential of gravitational waves for astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. We show that the mid-frequency band, roughly 0.03 to 10 Hz, has significant potential for angular…

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We consider functional-integral quantisation of the moduli of all quantum metrics defined as square-lengths $a$ on the edges of a Lorentzian square graph. We determine correlation functions and find a fixed relative uncertainty $\Delta…

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A quantum gravity-gradiometer consists of two spatially separated ensembles of atoms interrogated by pulses of a common laser beam. Laser pulses cause the probability amplitudes of atomic ground-state hyperfine levels to interfere,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulvi Yurtsever

We investigate the motion of test particles in quantum-gravitational backgrounds by introducing the concept of q--desics, quantum-corrected analogs of classical geodesics. Unlike standard approaches that rely solely on the expectation value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Benjamin Koch , Ali Riahinia , Angel Rincon

The China Space Station (CSS) is currently in orbit and carries the high-precision optical atomic clock with stability of approximately $2.0 \times 10^{-15} / \sqrt{\tau}$ in its experiment module. We have developed a model to determine the…

The precise measurement of the gravity of the earth plays a pivotal role in various fundamental research and application fields. Although a few gravimeters have been reported to achieve this goal, miniaturization of high-precision…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Yingchun Leng , Yiming Chen , Rui Li , Lihua Wang , Hao Wang , Lei Wang , Han Xie , Chang-Kui Duan , Pu Huang , Jiangfeng Du

The past few decades have seen dramatic progress in our ability to manipulate and coherently control matter-waves. Although the duality between particles and waves has been well tested since de Broglie introduced the matter-wave analog of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 B. Barrett , A. Bertoldi , P. Bouyer

Accurate frequency estimation of oscillating signals over a broad bandwidth is a central task in quantum sensing, yet it is often compromised by spurious responses to higher-order harmonics in realistic multi-frequency environments. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Si-Qi Chen , Qi-Tao Duan , Teng Li , He Lu

Light pulse atom interferometers (AIFs) are exquisite quantum probes of spatial inhomogeneity and gravitational curvature. Moreover, detailed measurement and calibration are necessary prerequisites for very-long-baseline atom interferometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Michael Werner , Ali Lezeik , Dennis Schlippert , Ernst Rasel , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

Quantum sensors are now universally acknowledged as one of the most promising near-term quantum technologies. The traditional formulation of quantum sensing introduces a concrete bound on ultimate precision through the so-called local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Victor Montenegro , Abolfazl Bayat

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…

In this paper, we report high-precision absolute distance and vibration measurements performed with frequency scanned interferometry using a pair of single-mode optical fibers. Absolute distance was determined by counting the interference…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hai-Jun Yang , Jason Deibel , Sven Nyberg , Keith Riles

A set of observables is described for the topological quantum field theory which describes quantum gravity in three space-time dimensions with positive signature and positive cosmological constant. The simplest examples measure the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 John W. Barrett

Measurement sensitivity is one of the critical indicators for Rydberg atomic radio receivers. This work quantitatively studies the relationship between the atomic superheterodyne receiver's sensitivity and the number of atoms involved in…

Atom interferometery is an exquisite measurement technique sensitive to inertial forces. However, it is commonly limited to a single sensitive axis, allowing high-precision multi-dimensional sensing only through subsequent or post-corrected…

At the beginning of the previous century, Newtonian mechanics fell victim to two new revolutionary theories, Quantum Mechanics (QM) and General Relativity (GR). Both theories have transformed our view of physical phenomena, with QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Richard Howl , Lucia Hackermuller , David Edward Bruschi , Ivette Fuentes

In this essay, we argue that certain aspects of the measurement require revision in Quantum Gravity. Using entropic arguments, we propose that the number of measurement outcomes and the accuracy (or the range) of the measurement are limited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Juanca Carrasco-Martinez

Sensing and metrology play an important role in fundamental science and applications, by fulfilling the ever-present need for more precise data sets, and by allowing to make more reliable conclusions on the validity of theoretical models.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 S. Danilin , M. Weides

The article (Niebauer et al. 2011 Metrologia 48 154-163) reports on the important innovations enhancing the ability of absolute gravimeter to measure vertical gravity gradient along with the gravity acceleration. This comment suggests…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-24 V D Nagornyi

This experiment tested an automatically calibrate the relatively gravimeter with an absolute inertial force. The whole calibration system was controlled by microprocessor and low frequency oscillations were generated by a step motor. It…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-08 Ping Zhu , Michel van Ruymbeke , Jean-Phillippe Noel