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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

We consider the dispersion interaction between two ground-state hydrogen atoms, interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field in the vacuum state, in the presence of an external static electric field, both in the nonretarded and in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 G. Fiscelli , L. Rizzuto , R. Passante

We propose a marginally stable optical resonator suitable for atom interferometry. The resonator geometry is based on two flat mirrors at the focal planes of a lens that produces the large beam waist required to coherently manipulate cold…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 I. Riou , N. Mielec , G. Lefèvre , M. Prevedelli , A. Landragin , P. Bouyer , A. Bertoldi , R. Geiger , B. Canuel

We present a Rydberg-atom interferometry-based technique for voltage measurement between electrodes embedded in an atomic vapor cell, enabling the detection of weak voltages ($<0.1$V) and unambiguous discrimination between positive and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yingying Han , Changfa He , Zhenxiong Weng , Peng Xu , Yanting Zhao , Tao Wang

The role of entanglement in determining the non-classicality of a given interaction has gained significant traction over the last few years. In particular, as the basis for new experimental proposals to test the quantum nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 A. Douglas K. Plato , Dennis Rätzel , Chuanqi Wan

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 M. Kolár , T. Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

Atomic interferometers measure forces and acceleration with exceptional precision. The conventional approach to atomic interferometry is to launch an atomic cloud into a ballistic trajectory and perform the wave-packet splitting in momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Jonathan Nemirovsky , Rafi Weill , Ilan Meltzer , Yoav Sagi

We derive a quantum limit to the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors from optical-loss-induced dissipation, analogous to the sensitivity limit from the mechanical dissipation. It applies universally to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Haixing Miao , Nicolas D. Smith , Matthew Evans

The accelerated expansion of the universe motivates a wide class of scalar field theories that modify gravity on large scales. In regions where the weak field limit of General Relativity has been confirmed by experiment, such theories need…

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of precision measurement devices, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories and axion detectors. In the shot-noise-limited regime, these resonant detectors are subject to a trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiang Li , Jiri Smetana , Amit Singh Ubhi , Joe Bentley , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

We propose and demonstrate a new scheme for atom interferometry, using light pulses inside an optical cavity as matter wave beamsplitters. The cavity provides power enhancement, spatial filtering, and a precise beam geometry, enabling new…

Recent advances in atom interferometry have led to the development of quantum inertial sensors with outstanding performance in terms of sensitivity, accuracy, and long-term stability. For ground-based implementations, these sensors are…

We have realized an interferometer using a thermal cloud of magnetically trapped rubidium 87 atoms on a chip. The interferometer resembles a Ramsey interferometer with a state selective spatial splitting of the two internal states as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 B. Wirtschafter , C. I. Westbrook , M. Dupont-Nivet

We consider quantum enhancement of direct-detection interferometric measurements to increase telescope resolution. We propose a protocol of measuring interferometric visibility function using imperfectly entangled states shared between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Siddhartha Santra , Brian T. Kirby , Vladimir S. Malinovsky , Michael Brodsky

When an atom is placed into an oscillating electric field with frequency far from atomic resonances, the atomic electrons partly shield this field at the nucleus. It is conjectured that when the frequency of electric field reaches an atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

Interferometers based on ultra-cold atoms enable an absolute measurement of inertial forces with unprecedented precision. However, their resolution is fundamentally restricted by quantum fluctuations. Improved resolutions with entangled or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Christophe Cassens , Bernd Meyer-Hoppe , Ernst Rasel , Carsten Klempt

Quantum lithography proposes to adopt entangled quantum states in order to increase resolution in interferometry. In the present paper we experimentally demonstrate that the output of a high-gain optical parametric amplifier can be intense…

It has been demonstrated that the Rydberg criticality in a many-body atomic system can enhance the measurement sensitivity of the microwave electric field by increasing the Fisher information. In our previous work, we proposed and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Qinxia Wang , Yukang Liang , Zhihui Wang , Shijun Guan , Pengfei Yang , Pengfei Zhang , Gang Li , Tiancai Zhang

In this work we demonstrate a high sensitivity atomic gradiometer capable of operation in earth-field level environments. We apply a light-pulse sequence at four times the Larmor frequency to achieve gradiometer sensitivity <20…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 A. R. Perry , M. D. Bulatowicz , M. Larsen , T. G. Walker , R. Wyllie

We propose to embed the atomic magnetometer (AM) into an optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). We analyze the effect of amplification of the Faraday rotation (FR) angle of the probe laser light, by properly postselecting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Yazhi Niu , Jialin Li , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li