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We demonstrate a portable all-optical intrinsic scalar magnetic gradiometer composed of miniaturized cesium vapor cells and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Two cells, with an inner dimension of 5 mm x 5 mm x 5 mm and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Rui Zhang , Rahul Mhaskar , Ken Smith , Mark Prouty

Highly accurate indoor localization systems with absolute mm positioning accuracy are currently expensive. They include laser trackers, total stations, and motion capture systems relying on multiple high-end cameras. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Sven Hinderer , Jakob Hüsken , Bohan Sun , Bin Yang

Terrestrial long-baseline atom interferometer experiments are emerging as powerful tools for probing new fundamental physics, including searches for dark matter and gravitational waves. In the frequency range relevant to these signals,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 John Carlton , Valerie Gibson , Tim Kovachy , Christopher McCabe , Jeremiah Mitchell

We present a modular rack-mounted laser system for the cooling and manipulation of neutral rubidium atoms which has been developed for a portable gravimeter based on atom interferometry that will be capable of performing high precision…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Malte Schmidt , Marco Prevedelli , Antonio Giorgini , Guglielmo M. Tino , Achim Peters

Atom interferometers (AIs) on earth and in space offer good capabilities for measuring gravitational waves (GWs) in the mid-frequency deciHz band, complementing the sensitivities of the LIGO/Virgo and LISA experiments and enabling probes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 John Ellis , Ville Vaskonen

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

In moving-base gravity gradiometry, accelerometer mounting errors and mismatch cause a rotating accelerometer gravity gradiometer (RAGG) to besusceptible to its own motion. In this study, we comprehensively consider accelerometer mounting…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Mingbiao Yu , Tijing Cai

Magnetic gradiometers have wide practical and academic applications, and two important types of field gradient observables are the total field gradient and field gradient tensor. However, measurements of the field gradient tensor have not…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Qianqian Yu , Siqi Liu , Xueke Wang , Dong Sheng

Deployment of automated ground vehicles (AGVs) beyond the confines of sunny and dry climes will require sub-lane-level positioning techniques based on radio waves rather than near-visible-light radiation. Like human sight, lidar and cameras…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Lakshay Narula , Peter A. Iannucci , Todd E. Humphreys

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

One of the major limitations of atomic gravimeters is represented by the vibration noise of the measurement platform, which cannot be distinguished from the relevant acceleration signal. We demonstrate a new method to perform an atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 G. D'Amico , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Jain , S. Zhan , G. Rosi

Traditional land vehicle gravity measurement heavily rely on high-precision satellite navigation positioning information. However, the operational range of satellite navigation is limited, and it cannot maintain the required level of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-23 Kefan Zhang , Zhili Zhang , Junyang Zhao , Shenhua Lv

We propose a quantum sensor for electric fields based on networks of Rydberg atoms. The sensing mechanism exploits the strong dependence of the Rydberg blockade on the applied electric field near a F\"orster resonance. In this regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Philip Kitson , Wayne J. Chetcuti , Gerhard Birkl , Luigi Amico , Juan Polo

The Matter-wave laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna (MIGA) is an underground instrument using cold-atom interferometry to perform precision measurements of gravity gradients and strains. Following its installation at the low noise…

This paper proposes a position fixing method for autonomous navigation using partial gravity gradient solutions from cold atom interferometers. Cold atom quantum sensors can provide ultra-precise measurements of inertial quantities, such as…

We characterize the performance of a gravimeter and a gravity gradiometer based on the $^{1}$S$_{0}$-$^3$P$_0$ clock transition of strontium atoms. We use this new quantum sensor to measure the gravitational acceleration with a relative…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Liang Hu , Enlong Wang , Leonardo Salvi , Jonathan N. Tinsley , Guglielmo M. Tino , Nicola Poli

Efficient detection of magnetic fields is central to many areas of research and has important practical applications ranging from materials science to geomagnetism. High sensitivity detectors are commonly built using direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Mustafa Bal , Chunqing Deng , Jean-Luc Orgiazzi , Florian Ong , Adrian Lupascu

A new setup OGRAN-the large scale opto-acoustical gravitational detector-is described.In distinguish from know gravitational bar detectors it uses the optical interferometrical readout for a registering weak variations of gravity gradient…

This paper discusses a novel approach for detecting moving massive objects based on the time variation that these objects produce in the local gravitational field measured by several detectors. Such an approach may provide a viable method…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-14 Emmanuel David Tannenbaum

Fluctuations of the earth's gravity field are a major noise source for ground-based experiments investigating general relativity phenomena such as Gravitational Waves (GWs). Mass density variations caused by local seismic or atmospheric…