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We discuss techniques for probing the effects of a constant force acting on cold atoms using two configurations of a grating echo-type atom interferometer. Laser-cooled samples of $^{85}$Rb with temperatures as low as 2.4 $\mu$K have been…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 B. Barrett , I. Chan , A. Kumarakrishnan

We study the use of atom interferometers as detectors for gravitational waves in the mHz - Hz frequency band, which is complementary to planned optical interferometers, such as laser interferometer gravitational wave observatories (LIGOs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-02 Michael Hohensee , Shau-Yu Lan , Rachel Houtz , Cheong Chan , Brian Estey , Geena Kim , Pei-Chen Kuan , Holger Mueller

The utility of inertial sensors depends on resilience against real-world dynamics and noise. Atom interferometry offers a sensing technology with the advantage of good long-term stability, high sensitivity, and accuracy. High measurement…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Jonathan M. Kwolek , Sunil Upadhyay , Adam T. Black

Mobile gravimetry is important in metrology, navigation, geodesy, and geophysics. Atomic gravimeters could be among the most accurate mobile gravimeters, but are currently constrained by being complex and fragile. Here, we demonstrate a…

Newtonian noise in gravitational wave detectors originates from density fluctuations in the adjacency of the interferometer mirrors. At the Einstein Telescope, this noise source is expected to be dominant for low frequencies. Its impact is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Patrick Schillings , Johannes Erdmann

Satellite geodesy uses the measurement of the motion of one or more satellites to infer precise information about the Earth's gravitational field. In this work, we consider the achievable precision limits on such measurements by examining…

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

The time delay interferometry (TDI) is an algorithm proposed to suppress the laser frequency noise in space-borne gravitational wave detectors. As a post-processing technique, it is implemented by constructing a virtual equal arm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Pan-Pan Wang , Wei-Liang Qian , Yu-Jie Tan , Han-Zhong Wu , Cheng-Gang Shao

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 show that the gravitational acceleration can be measured with the matter-wave Ramsey interferometry, by using a nitrogen-vacancy center coupled to a nano-mechanical resonator. We propose two experimental methods to realize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Xing-yan Chen , Zhang-qi Yin

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

A possibility of geophysical measurements using the large scale laser interferometrical gravitational wave antenna is discussed. An interferometer with suspended mirrors can be used as a gradiometer measuring variations of an angle between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. N. Rudenko , A. V. Serdobolski , K. Tsubono

We present a new measurement of the Newtonian gravitational constant G based on cold atom interferometry. Freely falling samples of laser-cooled rubidium atoms are used in a gravity gradiometer to probe the field generated by nearby source…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 G. Lamporesi , A. Bertoldi , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO need to be able to measure changes in their arm lengths of order $10^{-18}~$m or smaller. This requires very high laser power in order to raise the signal above shot noise. One…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 S. Biscans , S. Gras , C. D. Blair , J. Driggers , M. Evans , P. Fritschel , T. Hardwick , G. Mansell

Onboard electrostatic suspension inertial sensors are important applications for gravity satellites and space gravitational wave detection missions, and it is important to suppress noise in the measurement signal. Due to the complex…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 Zhilan Yang , Haoyue Zhang , Peng Xu , Ziren Luo

Time-resolved atom interferometry, as employed in applications such as gravitational wave detection and searches for ultra-light dark matter, requires precise control over systematic effects. In this work, we investigate phase noise arising…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Noam Mouelle , Jeremiah Mitchell , Valerie Gibson , Ulrich Schneider

We present a time-frequency method to detect gravitational wave signals in interferometric data. This robust method can detect signals from poorly modeled and unmodeled sources. We evaluate the method on simulated data containing noise and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Warren G. Anderson , R. Balasubramanian

In this work, we have built an experimental setup to simulate the clock noise transmission with two spacecrafts and two optical links, and further demonstrated the extraction of picometer level signal drowned by the large laser frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Mingyang Xu , Yujie Tan , Yurong Liang , Jiawen Zhi , Xiaoyang Guo , Dan Luo , Panpan Wang , Hanzhong Wu , Chenggang Shao

The AION project has built a tabletop prototype of a single-photon long-baseline atom interferometer using the 87Sr clock transition - a type of quantum sensor designed to search for dark matter and gravitational waves. Our prototype…

Interferometers with kilometer-scale arms have been built for gravitational-wave detections on the ground; ones with much longer arms are being planned for space-based detection. One fundamental motivation for long baseline interferometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 Kentaro Somiya , Keisuke Goda , Yanbei Chen , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov