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Light pulse atom interferometers (AIFs) are exquisite quantum probes of spatial inhomogeneity and gravitational curvature. Moreover, detailed measurement and calibration are necessary prerequisites for very-long-baseline atom interferometry…

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The techniques of laser cooling combined with atom interferometry make possible the realization of very sensitive and accurate inertial sensors like gyroscopes or accelerometers. Besides earth-based developments, the use of these techniques…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Arnaud Landragin , Franck Pereira Dos Santos

A majority of ultracold atom experiments utilize resonant absorption imaging techniques to obtain the atomic density. To make well-controlled quantitative measurements, the optical intensity of the probe beam must be precisely calibrated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Emine Altuntas , Ian B. Spielman

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

Gravitational wave observatories have always been affected by tele-seismic earthquakes leading to a decrease in duty cycle and coincident observation time. In this analysis, we leverage the power of machine learning algorithms and archival…

We analyze the operation of a novel sensor based on atom interferometry, which can achieve supra-classical sensitivity by exploiting quantum correlations in mixed states of many qubits. The interferometer is based on quantum gates which use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Calum MacCormick , Silvia Bergamini , Chris Mansell , Hugo Cable , Kavan Modi

The Newtonian constant of gravitation $G$ historically has the largest relative uncertainty over all other fundamental constants with some discrepancies in values between different measurements. We propose a new scheme to measure $G$ by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-02 Akio Kawasaki

Recent progresses on quantum control of cold atoms and trapped ions in both the scientific and technological aspects greatly advance the applications in precision measurement. Thanks to the exceptional controllability and versatility of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Qiuxin Zhang , Yirong Wang , Chenhao Zhu , Yuxin Wang , Xiang Zhang , Kuiyi Gao , Wei Zhang

Moment-based estimation is a theoretically attractive approach to parametric inference, especially when likelihood-based estimation is unavailable, misspecified, or computationally inconvenient. However, the moment equations involve sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Liu Zhang , Amit Singer

We present the first demonstration of an inertially sensitive atomic interferometer based on a continuous, rather than pulsed, atomic beam at sub-Doppler temperatures in three dimensions. We demonstrate 30\% fringe contrast in continuous,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 J. M. Kwolek , A. T. Black

We develop an iterative, adaptive frequency sensing protocol based on Ramsey interferometry of a two-level system. Our scheme allows one to estimate unknown frequencies with a high precision from short, finite signals. It avoids several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Avishek Chowdhury , Anh Tuan Le , Eva M. Weig , Hugo Ribeiro

The performance of high-precision cold-atom interferometers, which are important for applications in gravimetry and fundamental physics, is often limited by noise and imperfections in the driving laser system. To address this, we propose…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ziwen Song

Interatomic-force measurements are regularly performed using frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy. This requires conversion of the observed shift in the resonant frequency of a force-sensing cantilever, to the actual force…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 John Elie Sader

With an ever-expanding ecosystem of noisy and intermediate-scale quantum devices, exploring their possible applications is a rapidly growing field of quantum information science. In this work, we demonstrate that variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Johannes Borregaard , Jens Eisert

The fast progress in improving the sensitivity of the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, we all have witnessed in the recent years, has propelled the scientific community to the point, when quantum behaviour of such immense measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Stefan L. Danilishin , Farid Ya. Khalili

Interference is fundamental to wave dynamics and quantum mechanics. The quantum wave properties of particles are exploited in metrology using atom interferometers, allowing for high-precision inertia measurements [1, 2]. Furthermore, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-14 Christian Gross , Tilman Zibold , Eike Nicklas , Jerome Esteve , Markus K. Oberthaler

We have developed two configurations of an echo interferometer that rely on standing wave excitation of a laser-cooled sample of rubidium atoms that measures acceleration. For a two-pulse configuration, the interferometer signal is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 C. Mok , B. Barrett , A. Carew , R. Berthiaume , S. Beattie , A. Kumarakrishnan

Matter-wave interferometry and spectroscopy of optomechanical resonators offer complementary advantages. Interferometry with cold atoms is employed for accurate and long-term stable measurements, yet it is challenged by its dynamic range…

We proposed a novel dense line spectrum super-resolution algorithm, the DMRA, that leverages dynamical multi-resolution of atoms technique to address the limitation of traditional compressed sensing methods when handling dense point-source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mingguang Han , Yi Zeng , Xiaoguang Li , Tiejun Li

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford 10 m atom interferometer presently under construction. Each configuration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-07 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran