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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…

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

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 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…

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

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

Sagnac interferometers with massive particles promise unique advantages in achieving high precision measurements of rotation rates over their optical counterparts. Recent proposals and experiments are exploring non-ballistic Sagnac…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Yijia Zhou , Igor Lesanovsky , Thomas Fernholz , Weibin Li

Fermionic many-body systems provide an unrivaled arena to investigate how interactions drive the emergence of collective quantum behavior, such as macroscopic coherence and superfluidity. Central to these phenomena is the formation of…

We experimentally demonstrate a multi-mode interferometer comprising a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{39}$K atoms trapped in a harmonic potential, where the interatomic interaction can be cancelled exploiting Feshbach resonances.…

Confining the propagating wavepackets of an atom interferometer inside a waveguide can substantially reduce the size of the device while preserving high sensitivity. We have realized a two-dimensional Sagnac atom interferometer in which…

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 simulate ultracold Sagnac atom interferometers using quantum-mechanical matter wavepackets, e.g. Bose-Einstein condensates, that counter-propagate within a rotating ring-trap. We find that the accumulation of the relative phase…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 M. C. Kandes , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , M. W. J. Bromley

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…

Recent atom interferometry (AI) experiments involving Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs) have been conducted under extreme conditions of volume and interrogation time. Numerical solution of the standard mean-field theory applied to these…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-25 S. Thomas , C. Sapp , C. Henry , A. Smith , C. A. Sackett , C. W. Clark , M. Edwards

The Sagnac effect is an important phase coherent effect in optical and atom interferometers where rotations of the interferometer with respect to an inertial reference frame result in a shift in the interference pattern proportional to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marko Zivkovic , Markku Jaaskelainen , Christopher P. Search , Ivana Djuric

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

We analyze a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) - based free oscillation atom Michelson interferometer in a weakly confining harmonic magnetic trap. A BEC at the center of the trap is split into two harmonics by a laser standing wave. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Rudra P. Kafle , Dana Z. Anderson , Alex A. Zozulya

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

Matter-wave interferometers are, in principle, orders of magnitude more sensitive than their optical counterparts. Nevertheless, creation of matter-wave currents to achieve such a sensitivity is a continuing challenge. Here, we propose the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-08 Sulakshana Thanvanthri , Kishore T. Kapale , Jonathan P. Dowling

We consider a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a ring trap in a rotating frame, and show how to determine the response of such a configuration to being in a rotating frame, via accumulation of a Sagnac phase. This may be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-30 P. L. Halkyard , M. P. A. Jones , S. A. Gardiner
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