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Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry (VLBAI) corresponds to ground-based atomic matter-wave interferometry on large scales in space and time, letting the atomic wave functions interfere after free evolution times of several seconds or…

We propose and demonstrate a momentum filter for atomic gas based on a designed Talbot-Lau interferometer. It consists in two identical optical standing wave pulses separated by a delay equal to odd multiples of the half Talbot time. The…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2015-06-16 Wei Xiong , Xiaoji Zhou , Xuguang Yue , Yueyang Zhai , Xuzong Chen

We examine the prospects of utilizing matter-wave Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometers for enhanced inertial sensing applications. Our study explores such tunneling-based sensors for the measurement of accelerations in two configurations: (a) a…

The aims of this letter are two. First, to show the angular gauge-invariance on the response of interferometers to gravitational waves (GWs). In this process, after resuming for completeness results on the Transverse-Traceless (TT) gauge,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-20 Christian Corda

Matter-wave interferometry is a highly sensitive tool to measure small perturbations in a quantum system. This property allows the creation of precision sensors for dephasing mechanisms such as mechanical vibrations. They are a challenge…

We study the diffraction phase of different orders via the Dyson expansion series, for ultracold atomic gases scattered by a standing-wave pulse. As these diffraction phases are not observable in a single pulse scattering process, a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Xuguang Yue , Yueyang Zhai , Zhongkai Wang , Hongwei Xiong , Xuzong Chen , Xiaoji Zhou

We investigate the suppression of matter-wave Talbot interference under environmentally induced decoherence. The system is modeled as an atomic beam diffracted by a periodic grating, whose transverse dynamics is described within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 David Navia , Ángel S. Sanz

We consider a recent scheme of gravitational wave detection using atomic interferometers as inertial sensors, and reinvestigate its configuration using the concept of sensitivity functions. We show that such configuration can suppress noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Biao Tang , Baocheng Zhang , Lin Zhou , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

In this paper we demonstrate a magnetically guided Cesium (Cs) atom interferometer in the Talbot-Lau regime for inertial sensing with two interferometer schemes, Mach-Zenhder and Ramsey-Borde. The recoil frequency of the Cs atoms and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Lu Qi , Zhaohui Hu , Tristan Valenzuela , Yuchi Zhang , Yueyang Zhai , Wei Quan , Nick Waltham , Jiancheng Fang

Inertial sensors based on cold atom interferometry exhibit many interesting features for applications related to inertial navigation, particularly in terms of sensitivity and long-term stability. However, at present the typical atom…

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…

Using a thermal gas, we model the signal of a trapped interferometer. This interferometer uses two short laser pulses, separated by time T, which act as a phase grating for the matter waves. Near time 2T, there is an echo in the cloud's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Eric Imhof , James Stickney , Matthew Squires

The aim of this paper is to show the gauge-invariance on the response of interferometers to gravitational waves (GWs). In this process, after a review of results on the Tranverse-Traceless (TT) gauge, where, in general, the theoretical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-25 Christian Corda

Quantum technology based on cold-atom interferometers is showing great promise for fields such as inertial sensing and fundamental physics. However, the best precision achievable on Earth is limited by the free-fall time of the atoms, and…

Paths of particles, emitted from distributed sources and passing out through slits of two gratings, $G_{0}$ and $G_{1}$, up to detectors, have been computed in details by the path integral method. The slits are represented by Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-20 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

Imaging of surface adsorbed molecules is investigated as a novel detection method for matter wave interferometry with fluorescent particles. Mechanically magnified fluorescence imaging turns out to be an excellent tool for recording quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Stibor , Andre Stefanov , Fabienne Goldfarb , Elisabeth Reiger , Markus Arndt

We present an interferometric inertial sensor that utilizes two counter-propagating atomic beams with transverse two-dimensional cooling. By employing three parallel and spatially aligned Raman laser beams for Doppler-sensitive Raman…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Pei-Qiang Yan , Wei-Chen Jia , Ke Shen , Yue Xin , Yan-Ying Feng

As a multi-contrast X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging system, the grating-based Talbot-Lau interferometer is able to generate the absorption contrast and differential phase contrast (DPC) images concurrently. However, experiments found…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yuhang Tan , Jiecheng Yang , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang , Peiping Zhu , Yongshuai Ge

Talbot length, the distance between two consecutive self-image planes along the propagation axis for a periodic diffraction object (grating) illuminated by a plane wave, depends on the period of the object and the wavelength of…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-21 Saumya J. Sarkar , M. Ebrahim-Zadeh , G. K. Samanta

Matter-wave interferometry performed with massive objects elucidates their wave nature and thus tests the quantum superposition principle at large scales. Whereas standard quantum theory places no limit on particle size, alternative, yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 James Bateman , Stefan Nimmrichter , Klaus Hornberger , Hendrik Ulbricht