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We show that it is possible to reach the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the phase estimation using two independently prepared Bose-Einstein condensates as an input of an interferometer. In this scenario, the quantum correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Wasak , P. Szańkowski , J. Chwedeńczuk

We consider an antiferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate in a traverse magnetic field with a fixed macroscopic magnetization. The system exhibits two different critical behaviors corresponding to transitions from polar to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-07 Safoura S. Mirkhalaf , Emilia Witkowska , Luca Lepori

Quantum entanglement can provide enhanced precision beyond standard quantum limit (SQL), the highest precision achievable with classical means. It remains challenging, however, to observe large enhancement limited by the experimental…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-20 Tian-Wei Mao , Qi Liu , Xin-Wei Li , Jia-Hao Cao , Feng Chen , Wen-Xin Xu , Meng Khoon Tey , Yi-Xiao Huang , Li You

We consider general three-mode interferometers using a spin-1 atomic Bose-Einstein condensate with macroscopic magnetization. We show that these interferometers, combined with the measurement of the number of particles in each output port,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-26 Artur Niezgoda , Dariusz Kajtoch , Emilia Witkowska

Atom interferometers covering macroscopic domains of space-time are a spectacular manifestation of the wave nature of matter. Due to their unique coherence properties, Bose-Einstein condensates are ideal sources for an atom interferometer…

Some of the most sensitive and precise measurements to date are based on matterwave interferometry with freely falling atomic clouds. Examples include high-precision measurements of inertia, gravity and rotation. In order to achieve these…

Light-pulse atom interferometers are highly sensitive to inertial and gravitational effects. As such they are promising candidates for tests of gravitational physics. In this article the state-of-the-art and proposals for fundamental tests…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Christian Ufrecht , Albert Roura , Wolfgang P. Schleich

The effect of noise induced by gravitons on a Bose-Einstein condensate has been explored in (Phys. Rev. D 110 (2024) 026014; https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.026014). In the previous paper, we investigated the effects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Soham Sen , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We have experimentally investigated the quench dynamics of antiferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in the vicinity of a zero temperature quantum phase transition at zero quadratic Zeeman shift $q$. The rate of instability shows…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Vinit , C. Raman

We report the preparation of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) by integrating laser cooling with a grating magneto-optical trap (GMOT) and forced evaporation in a magnetic trap on a single chip. This new approach allowed us to produce a $6…

We present the first detector capable of recording high-bandwidth real time atom number density measurements of a Bose Einstein condensate. Based on a two-color Mach-Zehnder interferometer, our detector has a response time that is six…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Figl , L. Longchambon , M. Jeppesen , M. Kruger , H. A. Bachor , N. P. Robins , J. D. Close

We study gradient magnetometry with an ensemble of atoms with arbitrary spin. We calculate precision bounds for estimating the gradient of the magnetic field based on the quantum Fisher information. For quantum states that are invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Iagoba Apellaniz , Inigo Urizar-Lanz , Zoltan Zimboras , Philipp Hyllus , Geza Toth

We construct a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using Bose-Einstein condensed rubidium atoms and optical Bragg diffraction. In contrast to interferometers based on normal diffraction, where only a small percentage of the atoms contribute to the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshio Torii , Yoichi Suzuki , Mikio Kozuma , Takahiro Kuga , Lu Deng , E. W. Hagley

We have observed the interferometric suspension of a free-falling Bose-Einstein condensate periodically submitted to multiple-order diffraction by a vertical 1D standing wave. The various diffracted matter waves recombine coherently,…

Compared to light interferometers, the flux in cold-atom interferometers is low and the associated shot noise large. Sensitivities beyond these limitations require the preparation of entangled atoms in different momentum modes. Here, we…

We propose a novel type of composite light-matter interferometer based on a supersolid-like phase of a driven Bose-Einstein condensate coupled to a pair of degenerate counterpropagating electromagnetic modes of an optical ring cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Karol Gietka , Farokh Mivehvar , Helmut Ritsch

We propose a precise test of two fundamental gravitational constants using a detector concept that exploits the dynamics of quantum phononic excitations in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), operable at the scale of tabletop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hector A. Fernandez-Melendez , Alexander Belyaev , Vahe Gurzadyan , Ivette Fuentes

We present a free-space interferometer to observe two-particle interference of a pair of atoms with entangled momenta. The source of atom pairs is a Bose--Einstein condensate subject to a dynamical instability, and the interferometer is…

A major challenge in quantum metrology is the generation of entangled states with macroscopic atom number. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that atomic squeezing generated via non-linear dynamics in Bose Einstein condensates, combined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 W. Muessel , H. Strobel , D. Linnemann , D. B. Hume , M. K. Oberthaler