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The 3D topological insulator (TI) PN junction under magnetic fields presents a novel transport property which is investigated both theoretically and numerically in this paper. Transport in this device can be tuned by the axial magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Ning Dai , Yan-Feng Zhou , Peng Lv , Qing-Feng Sun

We design a phase-sensitive Rydberg-atom interferometry by implementing Floquet electromagnetically induced transparency (FEIT). The FEIT mixes the sidebands of a Rydberg state induced by a MHz radio frequency (RF) field and recombines them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Yingying Han , Changfa He , Peng Xu , Yanting Zhao , Tao Wang , Weidong Li

Topological acoustics provides new opportunities for materials with unprecedented functions. In this work, we report a design of topological valley acoustic interferometers by Y-shaped valley sonic crystals. By tight-bounding calculation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Wei Zhao , Jia-He Chen , Shu-Guang Cheng , Yong Mao , Xiaojun Zhang , Zhi Tao , Hua Jiang , Zhi Hong Hang

In the presence of Earth gravity and gravity-gradient forces, centrifugal and Coriolis forces caused by the Earth rotation, the phase of the time-domain atom interferometers is calculated with accuracy up to the terms proportional to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Dubetsky , M. A. Kasevich

Atomic three-grating Mach-Zehnder interferometry constitutes an important tool to probe fundamental aspects of the quantum theory. There is, however, a remarkable gap in the literature between the oversimplified models and robust numerical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 A. S. Sanz , M. Davidovic , M. Bozic

In this article we have shown that the atomic states can be engineered by tunning the coupling Rabi frequency for a system with $\mathcal{N}$-type configuration. Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), Electromagnetically induced…

Topologically trivial insulators are classified into two primary categories: unobstructed and obstructed atomic insulators. While both types can be described by exponentially localized Wannier orbitals, a defining feature of obstructed…

It is shown that using beam splitters with non-equal wave vectors results in a new recoil diagram which is qualitatively different from the well-known diagram associated with the Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer. We predict a new asymmetric…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 B. Dubetsky

We experimentally demonstrate a shaken lattice interferometer. Atoms are trapped in the ground Bloch state of a red-detuned optical lattice. Using a closed-loop optimization protocol based on the dCRAB algorithm, we phase-modulate (shake)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 C. A. Weidner , Dana Z. Anderson

Systems with topologically protected ground-state degeneracies are currently of great interest due to their potential applications in quantum computing. In practise this degeneracy is never exact, and the magnitude of the ground-state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Chun Chen , F. J. Burnell

A matter wave propagating through curved spacetime accumulates phase that encodes both geometry and gauge structure. We develop a semiclassical framework for charged spin-$1/2$ matter-wave interferometers based on a WKB expansion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Nontapat Wanwieng , Apimook Watcharangkool

High sensitivity differential atom interferometers are promising for precision measurements in science frontiers in space, including gravity field mapping for Earth science studies and gravitational wave detection. We propose a new…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sheng-wey Chiow , Jason Williams , Nan Yu

IIn this paper we demonstrate a new scheme for Raman transitions which realize a symmetric momentum-space splitting of $4 \hbar k$, deflecting the atomic wave-packets into the same internal state. Combining the advantages of Raman and Bragg…

Occurrence of topological Anderson insulator (TAI) in HgTe quantum well suggests that when time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is maintained, the pertinent topological phase transition, marked by re-entrant $2e^2/h$ quantized conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ying Su , Y. Avishai , X. R. Wang

A trapped atom interferometer involving state-selective adiabatic potentials with two microwave frequencies on a chip is proposed. We show that this configuration provides a way to achieve a high degree of symmetry between the two arms of…

We present an atom interferometry technique in which the beamsplitter is split into two separate operations. A microwave pulse first creates a spin-state superposition, before optical adiabatic passage spatially separates the arms of that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Matt Jaffe , Victoria Xu , Philipp Haslinger , Holger Müller , Paul Hamilton

A beam splitter is a key component used to direct and combine light paths in various optical and microwave systems. It plays a crucial role in devices like interferometers, such as the Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel setups, where it splits…

Atomic interferometry in optical lattices is a new trend of developing practical quantum gravimeter. Here, we propose a compact and portable gravimetry scheme with an ensemble of ultracold atoms in gravitationally tilted spin-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Yongguan Ke , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Bo Lu , Chaohong Lee

We introduce shaken lattice interferometry with atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. By phase modulating (shaking) the lattice, we control the momentum state of the atoms. Through a sequence of shaking functions, the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 C. A. Weidner , Hoon Yu , Ronnie Kosloff , and Dana Z. Anderson

We analyze the creation of spin squeezed atomic ensembles by simultaneous dispersive interactions with several optical frequencies. A judicious choice of optical parameters enables optimization of an interferometric detection scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 M. Saffman , D. Oblak , J. Appel , E. S. Polzik