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We demonstrate a two-dimensional atom interferometer in a harmonic magnetic waveguide using a Bose-Einstein condensate. Such an interferometer could measure rotation using the Sagnac effect. Compared to free space interferometers, larger…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 J. H. T. Burke , C. A. Sackett

Matter-wave interferometry with atoms propagating in a guiding potential is expected to provide compact, scalable and precise inertial sensing. However, a rotation sensing device based on the Sagnac effect with atoms guided in a ring has…

A Sagnac atom interferometer can be constructed using a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a cylindrically symmetric harmonic potential. Using the Bragg interaction with a set of laser beams, the atoms can be launched into circular orbits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Zhe Luo , E R Moan , C A Sackett

The Sagnac interferometry has been widely used to measure rotation frequency. Beyond the conventional single-particle Sagnac interferometry, we propose an atomic Sagnac interferometry via multi-particle entangled states. In our scheme, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Chengyi Luo , Jiahao Huang , Xiangdong Zhang , Chaohong Lee

Quantum information processing with geometric features of quantum states may provide promising noise-resilient schemes for quantum metrology. In this work, we theoretically explore phase-space geometric Sagnac interferometers with trapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Yanming Che , Fei Yao , Hongbin Liang , Guolong Li , Xiaoguang Wang

We propose a scheme for trapped atom interferometry using an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. The condensate is controlled and spatially split in two confined external momentum modes through a series Bragg pulses. The proposed scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Robin Corgier , Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

We describe a matter-wave Sagnac interferometer using Bose condensed atoms confined in a time-orbiting potential trap. Compared to our previous implementation [Moan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120403 (2020)], our new apparatus provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 M. Beydler , E. R. Moan , Z. Luo , Z. Chu , C. A. Sackett

We present a model of a spin-squeezed rotation sensor utilising the Sagnac effect in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring trap. The two input states for the interferometer are seeded using Raman pulses with Laguerre-Gauss beams and…

Sensitive and accurate rotation sensing is a critical requirement for applications such as inertial navigation [1], north-finding [2], geophysical analysis [3], and tests of general relativity [4]. One effective technique used for rotation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 E. R. Moan , R. A. Horne , T. Arpornthip , Z. Luo , A. J. Fallon , S. J. Berl , C. A. Sackett

The ability to interferometrically detect inertial rotations via the Sagnac effect has been a strong stimulus for the development of atom interferometry because of the potential 10^{10} enhancement of the rotational phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chris P. Search , John R. E. Toland , Marko Zivkovic

We theoretically discuss an implementation of a Sagnac interferometer with cold atoms. In contrast to currently existing schemes our protocol does not rely on any free propagation of atoms. Instead it is based on superpositions of fully…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 R. Stevenson , M. Hush , T. Bishop , I. Lesanovsky , T. Fernholz

We present a protocol for using trapped ions to measure rotations via matter-wave Sagnac interferometry. The trap allows the interferometer to enclose a large area in a compact apparatus through repeated round-trips in a Sagnac geometry. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 W. C. Campbell , P. Hamilton

We theoretically analyze the operating principles of a proposed matter-wave Sagnac interferometer utilizing Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phonon modes as an interference medium. Previous work found that the orbital angular momentum phonon…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-08 B. J. Mommers , M. W. J. Bromley

Interferometry with ultracold atoms promises the possibility of ultraprecise and ultrasensitive measurements in many fields of physics, and is the basis of our most precise atomic clocks. Key to a high sensitivity is the possibility to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-07-08 Julian Grond , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Ulrich Hohenester

We report the experimental realization of a large-area and multi-axis atomtronic interferometer in an optical waveguide for rotation sensing. A large enclosed area is achieved through multi-loop operation in a guided atom interferometer…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Saurabh Pandey , Ceren Uzun , Katarzyna A. Krzyzanowska , Malcolm G. Boshier

We present two novel matter-wave Sagnac interferometers based on ring- shaped time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAP). For both the atoms are put into a superposition of two different spin states and manipulated independently using…

Precision interferometry with atomic wavepackets confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice is an emergent paradigm in quantum sensing of forces and fields, with applications in gravimetry, accelerometry, geophysics, and fundamental…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-28 Emmett Hough , Tahiyat Rahman , Forest Tschirhart , Subhadeep Gupta

We propose a method of atom-interferometry using a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a time-varying magnetic field acting as a coherent beam-splitter. Our protocol creates long-lived superpositional counterflow states, which are of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 John L. Helm , Thomas P. Billam , Ana Rakonjac , Simon L. Cornish , Simon A. Gardiner

We study the theory of, and propose an experimental design for, a Sagnac tractor atom interferometer based on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The atoms are trapped in counter-rotating azimuthal optical lattices, formed by interfering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Lefeng Zhou , Anne Graf , Georg Raithel

The advantages of light and matter-wave Sagnac interferometers -- large area on one hand and high rotational sensitivity per unit area on the other -- can be combined utilizing ultra-slow light in cold atomic gases. While a group-velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Zimmer , M. Fleischhauer
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