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Beam splitters are optical elements widely used in modern technological applications to split the initial light beam into a required number of beams and they play a very promising role for generating entangled optical states. Here, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Abdallah Slaoui , Brahim Amghar , Rachid Ahl Laamara

Recent scientific and technological advances have enabled the detection of gravitational waves, autonomous driving, and the proposal of a communications network on the Moon (Lunar Internet or LunaNet). These efforts are based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Jaime Gonzalo Flor Flores , Talha Yerebakan , Wenting Wang , Mingbin Yu , Dim-Lee Kwong , Andrey Matsko , Chee Wei Wong

Tracking moving masses in several degrees of freedom with high precision and large dynamic range is a central aspect in many current and future gravitational physics experiments. Laser interferometers have been established as one of the…

The Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) underpins all metric theories of gravity. One of its key aspects is the local position invariance (LPI) of non-gravitational experiments, which is captured by the gravitational red-shift. The iconic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-22 Daniel R. Terno , Francesco Vedovato , Matteo Schiavon , Alexander R. H. Smith , Piergiovanni Magnani , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

We present here the performance of a simultaneous dual-species matter-wave accelerometer for measuring the differential acceleration between two different atomic species ($^{87}$Rb and $^{85}$Rb). We study the expression and the extraction…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 A. Bonnin , N. Zahzam , Y. Bidel , A. Bresson

We study a device composed of an optical interferometer integrated with a ferri-magnetic sphere resonator (FSR). Magneto-optic coupling can be employed in such a device to manipulate entanglement between optical pulses that are injected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Eyal Buks , Banoj Kumar Nayak

Matter-wave interferometers utilizing different isotopes or chemical elements intrinsically have different sensitivities, and the analysis tools available until now are insufficient for accurately estimating the atomic phase difference…

We simulate the performance of a gravitational wave interferometer in the Dual Recycling (DR) configuration, as will be used for systems like Advanced-LIGO. Our grid-based simulation program models complex interferometric detectors with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brett Bochner

This work discusses the possibility of using two-mode squeezed light to improve the performance of existing sensor technology with the focus on its miniaturization under realistic losses. Therefore, we analyze a system consisting of a part…

Recent experimental progress in quantum optics has enabled measurement of single photons on ultrafast timescales, beyond the resolution limit of single photon detectors. The energy-time degree of freedom has emerged as a promising avenue…

{This paper proposes an angle measurement method based on Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI) using a Michelson interferometer. By leveraging different principles within the same device, this method achieves complementary…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Zhu Siyuan , Li Tao , Chen Zhongshan , Li Xin

A Michelson-type interferometer with two-mode squeezed coherent state input is considered. Such an interferometer has a better phase sensitivity over the shot-noise limit by a factor of $e^{2r}$, where $r$ is the squeezing parameter [Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Stav Haldar , Pratik J. Barge , Xiao-Qi Xiao , Hwang Lee

The second generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors are quickly approaching their design sensitivity. For the first time these detectors will become limited by quantum back-action noise. Several back-action evasion…

We use a small atomic Bose-Einstein condensate as an interferometric scanning probe to map out a microwave field near a chip surface with a few micrometers resolution. Using entanglement between the atoms we overcome the standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Caspar F. Ockeloen , Roman Schmied , Max F. Riedel , Philipp Treutlein

Improvements to dual-comb interferometers will benefit precision spectroscopy and sensing, distance metrology, tomography, telecommunications etc. A specific requirement of such interferometers is to enforce mutual coherence between the two…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-10 Zaijun Chen , Ming Yan , Theodor W. Hänsch , Nathalie Picqué

Accurately modeling the inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) signal of coalescing compact objects is essential for the test of general relativity. However, it is known that astrophysical environments can distort gravitational-wave (GW) signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Xinmiao Zhao , Han Yan , Xian Chen

Large scale atom interferometers promise unrivaled strain sensitivity to midband (0.1 - 10 Hz) gravitational waves, and will probe a new parameter space in the search for ultra-light scalar dark matter. These atom interferometers require a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 R. Nourshargh , S. Lellouch , S. Hedges , M. Langlois , K. Bongs , M. Holynski

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear interferometer with feedback loops and explore its efficiency for phase estimation. We analyse two feedback schemes, one where both modes of the interferometer are fed-back into the device and another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Shivani Singh , Craig S. Hamilton , Igor Jex

Searches for gravitational wave signals which do not have a precise model describing the shape of their waveforms are often performed using power detectors based on a quadratic form of the data. A new, optimal method of generalizing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

We propose an experiment to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) with a test mass consisting of two entangled atoms of different species. In the proposed experiment, a coherent measurement of the differential gravity acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-29 Remi Geiger , Michael Trupke