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We describe an atom interferometric gravitational wave detector design that can operate in a resonant mode for increased sensitivity. By oscillating the positions of the atomic wavepackets, this resonant detection mode allows for coherently…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

We present a precision gravimeter based on coherent Bragg diffraction of freely falling cold atoms. Traditionally, atomic gravimeters have used stimulated Raman transitions to separate clouds in momentum space by driving transitions between…

We report a comparison between two absolute gravimeters: the LNE-SYRTE cold atoms gravimeter and FG5#220 of Leibniz Universit\"at of Hannover. They rely on different principles of operation: atomic and optical interferometry. Both are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 S. Merlet , Q. Bodart , N. Malossi , A. Landragin , F. Pereira Dos Santos , O. Gitlein , L. Timmen

We survey the prospective sensitivities of terrestrial and space-borne atom interferometers (AIs) to gravitational waves (GWs) generated by cosmological and astrophysical sources, and to ultralight dark matter. We discuss the backgrounds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Leonardo Badurina , Oliver Buchmueller , John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , Christopher McCabe , Ville Vaskonen

We present a new general design approach of a broad-band detector of gravitational radiation that relies on two atom interferometers separated by a distance L. In this scheme, only one arm and one laser will be used for operating the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Nan Yu , Massimo Tinto

Laser frequency noise is a dominant noise background for the detection of gravitational waves using long-baseline optical interferometry. Amelioration of this noise requires near simultaneous strain measurements on more than one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

The periodicity inherent to any interferometric signal entails a fundamental trade-off between sensitivity and dynamic range of interferometry-based sensors. Here we develop a methodology for significantly extending the dynamic range of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Dimitry Yankelev , Chen Avinadav , Nir Davidson , Ofer Firstenberg

This paper aims at providing an accessible introduction to ultracold quantum gravimeters tailored for geophysicists. We do not focus here on geophysical applications, as these are already well known to geophysicists, but rather provide a…

Atom interferometers allow the measurement of the acceleration of freely falling atoms with respect to an experimental platform at rest on Earth's surface. Such experiments have been used to test the universality of free fall by comparing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 Peter Wolf , Luc Blanchet , Christian J. Bordé , Serge Reynaud , Christophe Salomon , Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

We investigate and analyze site specific systematics for the MAGIS-100 atomic interferometry experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. As atom interferometers move out of the laboratory environment passive and active mitigation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Jeremiah Mitchell , Timothy Kovachy , Steve Hahn , Phil Adamson , Swapan Chattopadhyay

The most promising concept for low frequency gravitational wave observatories are laser interferometric detectors in space. It is usually assumed that the noise floor for such a detector is dominated by optical shot noise in the signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 Simon Barke , Yan Wang , Juan Jose Esteban Delgado , Michael Tröbs , Gerhard Heinzel , Karsten Danzmann

We illustrate how geometric gauge forces and topological phase effects emerge in quantum systems without employing assumptions that rely on adiabaticity. We show how geometric magnetism may be harnessed to engineer novel quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Bernard Zygelman

We present a detailed analysis of the usefulness of ultracold atomic collisions for sensing the strength of an external magnetic field as well as its spatial gradient. The core idea of the sensor, which we recently proposed in K. Jachymski…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Tomasz Wasak , Krzysztof Jachymski , Tommaso Calarco , Antonio Negretti

Harnessing the potential of quantum sensors to assist in navigation requires enabling their operation in complex, dynamic environments and integrating them within existing navigation systems. While cross-couplings from platform dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Samuel Lellouch , Michael Holynski

A vacuum compatible cryogenic accelerometer is presented which will reach $<0.5$ p$g$ Hz$^{-1/2}$ sensitivity from 1 mHz to 10 Hz with a maximum sensitivity of 10 f$g$ Hz$^{-1/2}$ around 10 Hz. This figure can be translated to a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Joris Vincent van Heijningen

We discuss the possibility to enhance the sensitivity of optical interferometric devices by increasing its open area using an external field gradient that act differently on the two arms of the interfer-ometers. The use of combined electric…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. Comparat

Atom interferometers offer promising new avenues for detecting ultra-light dark matter (ULDM). The exceptional sensitivity of atom interferometers to fluctuations in the local gravitational potential exposes them to sources of noise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 John Carlton , Christopher McCabe

We present an experimental opportunity for the future to measure possible violations to Newton's 1/r^2 law in the 0.1-10 meter range using Dynamic gravity Field Generators (DFG) and taking advantage of the exceptional sensitivity of modern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Peter Raffai , Gabor Szeifert , Luca Matone , Yoichi Aso , Imre Bartos , Zsuzsa Marka , Fulvio Ricci , Szabolcs Marka

We present a theoretical proposal and simulation study of a digital closed-loop thermal atomic-beam interferometer for inertial navigation applications. The scheme synchronizes phase biasing with momentum-kick reversal through the atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Tomoya Sato , Toshiyuki Hosoya , Martin Miranda , Hiroki Matsui , Yuki Miyazawa , Mikio Kozuma

We consider quantum gravity fluctuations in a pair of nearby gravitational wave detectors. Quantum fluctuations of long-wavelength modes of the gravitational field induce coherent fluctuations in the detectors, leading to correlated noise.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Maulik Parikh , Francesco Setti