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We numerically demonstrate atomic Fabry-Perot resonances for a pulsed interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) source transmitting through double Gaussian barriers. These resonances are observable for an experimentally-feasible parameter…

Quantum computers allow for direct simulation of the quantum interference and entanglement used in modern interferometry experiments with applications ranging from biological sensing to gravitational wave detection. Inspired by recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Cindy Tran , Tanaporn Na Narong , Eric S. Cooper

Quantum instruments derived from composite systems allow greater measurement precision than their classical counterparts due to coherences maintained between N components; spins, atoms or photons. Decoherence that plagues real-world devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Sergey I. Knysh , Edward H. Chen , Gabriel A. Durkin

Quantum sensors exploiting matter waves interferometry promise to realize a new generation of Gravitational Wave detectors. The intrinsic stability of specific atomic energy levels makes atom interferometers and clocks ideal candidates to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Andrea Bertoldi , Philippe Bouyer , Benjamin Canuel

There are new detector proposals and R&D that utilize quantum enhancements not previously adopted. Examples include superconducting quantum sensors, atom interferometry, and quantum spin sensors. They are mainly motivated by industrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-15 Masashi Hazumi

Atom interferometers measure quantum interference patterns in the wave functions of cold atoms that follow superpositions of different space-time trajectories. These can be sensitive to phase shifts induced by fundamental physics processes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Oliver Buchmueller , John Ellis , Ulrich Schneider

High-precision sensing of vectorial forces has broad impact on both fundamental research and technological applications such as the examination of vacuum fluctuations \cite{casimir09rmp} and the detection of surface roughness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Xinxin Guo , Zhongcheng Yu , Fansu Wei , Shengjie Jin , Xuzong Chen , Xiaopeng Li , Xibo Zhang , Xiaoji Zhou

Bose Einstein Condensates, with their coherence properties, have attracted wide interest for their possible application to ultra precise interferometry and ultra weak force sensors. Since condensates, unlike photons, are interacting, they…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Pezze' , L. A. Collins A. Smerzi , G. P. Berman , A. R. Bishop

Here we report the measurement of thermal photon statistics from a semiconductor photon Bose-Einstein condensate operating just above the condensation threshold. We identify a regime where coherent, single mode emission occurs while still…

Matter wave interferometers with large momentum transfers, irrespective of specific implementations, will face a universal dephasing due to relative accelerations between the interferometric mass and the associated apparatus. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Marko Toroš , Thomas W. van de Kamp , Ryan J. Marshman , M. S. Kim , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

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…

Ultracold atomic gases hold unique promise for space science by capitalizing on quantum advantages and extended freefall, afforded in a microgravity environment, to enable next-generation precision sensors. Atom interferometers are a class…

Light-pulse atom interferometers are powerful quantum sensors, however, their accuracy for example in tests of the weak equivalence principle is limited by various spurious influences like magnetic stray fields or blackbody radiation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Christian Ufrecht , Enno Giese

Inertial sensors based on cold atom interferometry exhibit many interesting features for applications related to inertial navigation, particularly in terms of sensitivity and long-term stability. However, at present the typical atom…

There is an enormous amount of information that can be extracted from the data of a quantum gas microscope that has yet to be fully explored. The quantum gas microscope has been used to directly measure magnetic order, dynamic correlations,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-27 Norm M. Tubman

Quantum metrology deals with improving the resolution of instruments that are otherwise limited by shot noise and it is therefore a promising avenue for enabling scientific breakthroughs. The advantage can be even more striking when quantum…

The advent of controlled experimental accessibility of Bose-Einstein condensates, as realized with e.g. cold atomic gases, exciton-polaritons, and more recently photons in a dye-filled optical microcavity, has paved the way for new studies…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-23 Julian Schmitt , Tobias Damm , David Dung , Frank Vewinger , Jan Klaers , Martin Weitz

Entanglement-based technologies, such as quantum information processing, quantum simulations, and quantum-enhanced metrology, have the potential to revolutionise our way of computing and measuring and help clarifying the puzzling concept of…

The application of the Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac interferometry to multi-hadron final states of particle reactions is reviewed. The underlying theoretical concepts of particle interferometry is presented where a special emphasis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Gideon Alexander