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Cryogenics is a pivotal aspect in the development of quantum technologies. Closed-cycle devices have recently emerged as an environmentally friendly and low-maintenance alternative to liquid helium cryostats. Yet the larger level of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-16 Anne Louchet-Chauvet , Thierry Chanelière

We consider the matterwave interferometric measurement of atomic velocities, which forms a building block for all matterwave inertial measurements. A theoretical analysis, addressing both the laboratory and atomic frames and accounting for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Max Carey , Mohammad Belal , Matthew Himsworth , James Bateman , Tim Freegarde

Photodissociation of a molecule produces a spatial distribution of photofragments determined by the molecular structure and the characteristics of the dissociating light. Performing this basic chemical reaction at ultracold temperatures…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 M. McDonald , I. Majewska , C. -H. Lee , S. S. Kondov , B. H. McGuyer , R. Moszynski , T. Zelevinsky

We investigate proximity induced superconductivity in micrometer-long bismuth nanowires con- nected to superconducting electrodes with a high critical field. At low temperature we measure a supercurrent that persists in magnetic fields as…

Magnetic fields created in the noncentral heavy-ion collision are studied within a microscopic transport model, namely the Ultrarelativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics model (UrQMD). Simulations were carried out for different impact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 V. Skokov , A. Illarionov , V. Toneev

This paper deals with an analytical modeling of heat transfers simulating a new radiation calorimeter operating in a temperature range from -50 {\deg}C to 150 {\deg}C. The aim of this modeling is the evaluation of the feasibility and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-11 Elysée Obame Ndong , Olivier Gallot-Lavallée , Frédéric Aitken

We propose a platform for observing and controlling the interactions between atomic ions and a quantum gas of polar molecules in the ultracold regime. This approach is based on the combination of several recently developed methods in two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Leon Karpa , Olivier Dulieu

High-precision sensors are of fundamental importance in modern society and technology.Although numerous sensors have been developed, obtaining sensors with higher levels of sensitivity and stronger robustness has always been expected. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Wenyuan Deng , Wei Zhu , Tian Chen , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Vector magnetometry provides more information than scalar measurements for magnetic surveys utilized in space, defense, medical, geological and industrial applications. These areas would benefit from a mobile vector magnetometer that can…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 A. J. Newman , S. M. Graham , A. M. Edmonds , D. J. Twitchen , M. L. Markham , G. W. Morley

Quantum reflection occurs when ultra-cold atoms are incident on a material surface with sufficiently low velocity. The reflecting matter wave can interfere with the incident wave to form a detectable pattern, and this pattern contains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-22 J. Boynewicz , C. A. Sackett

We present a method to measure the resonance transitions between the gravitationally bound quantum states of neutrons in the GRANIT spectrometer. The purpose of GRANIT is to improve the accuracy of measurement of the quantum states…

Cold atom magnetometers exploit a dense ensemble of quanta with long coherence times to realise leading sensitivity on the micrometer scale. Configured as a Ramsey interferometer, a cold atom sensor can approach atom shot-noise limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Hamish A. M. Taylor , Christopher C. Bounds , Alex Tritt , L. D. Turner

Gravimeters are devices which measure changes in the value of the gravitational acceleration, \textit{g}. This information is used to infer changes in density under the ground allowing the detection of subsurface voids; mineral, oil and gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-30 Steven G Bramsiepe , David Loomes , Richard P Middlemiss , Douglas J Paul , Giles D Hammond

Atomic comagnetometers are used in searches for anomalous spin-dependent interactions. Magnetic field gradients are one of the major sources of systematic errors in such experiments. Here we describe a comagnetometer based on the nuclear…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Teng Wu , John W. Blanchard , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Min Jiang , Dmitry Budker

We study an ultra-cold gas of $N$ bosons trapped in a one dimensional $M$-site optical lattice perturbed by a spatially dependent potential $g\cdot x^j$, where the unknown coupling strength $g$ is to be estimated. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Chwedenczuk , F. Piazza , A. Smerzi

An in-situ study of Hall sensors based on single-layered graphene in neutron fluxes of a nuclear reactor to the fluence of 1.5e20 n/sq,m was conducted. The sensitivity of the sensors to the magnetic field remained stable throughout the…

We study magnetic phases of two-component mixtures of ultracold fermions with repulsive interactions in optical lattices in the presence of hopping imbalance. Our analysis is based on dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) and its real-space…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-14 Andrii Sotnikov , Daniel Cocks , Walter Hofstetter

The accuracy and precision of current atom-interferometric inertialsensors rival state-of-the-art conventional devices using artifact-based test masses . Atomic sensors are well suited for fundamental measurements of gravito-inertial…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are optically addressable and versatile light-matter interfaces with practical application in magnetic field sensing, offering the ability to operate at room temperature and reach sensitivities below…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Arezoo Afshar , Andrew Proppe , Noah Lupu-Gladstein , Lilian Childress , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

A versatile and portable magnetically shielded room with a field of (700 \pm 200) pT within a central volume of 1m x 1m x 1m and a field gradient less than 300 pT/m is described. This performance represents more than a hundred-fold…