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Bloch oscillations (i.e., coherent acceleration of matter waves by an optical lattice) and Bragg diffraction are integrated into light-pulse atom interferometers with large momentum splitting between the interferometer arms, and hence…

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We study lower and upper bounds on the parameters for stochastic state vector reduction, focusing on the mass-proportional continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) model. We show that the assumption that the state vector is reduced whan a…

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Quantum mechanics, which governs all microscopic phenomena, encounters challenges when applied to macroscopic objects that exhibit classical behavior. To address this micro-macro disparity, collapse models such as the Continuous Spontaneous…

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Wavefunction collapse models modify Schrodinger's equation so that it describes the rapid evolution of a superposition of macroscopically distinguishable states to one of them. This provides a phenomenological basis for a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Brian Collett , Philip Pearle

Quantum sensing and metrology have been intensively studied over the last several decades to surpass the fundamental shot-noise limit of classical systems and approach the Heisenberg limit. However, implementation of N00N-state-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 S. Kim , B. S. Ham

Collapse models predict a tiny violation of energy conservation, as a consequence of the spontaneous collapse of the wave function. This property allows to set experimental bounds on their parameters. We consider an ultrasoft magnetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 A. Vinante , M. Bahrami , A. Bassi , O. Usenko , G. Wijts , T. H. Oosterkamp

A model is discussed where all operators are constructed from a quantum scalar field whose energy spectrum takes on all real values. The Schr\"odinger picture wave function depends upon space and time coordinates for each particle, as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Philip Pearle

Last couple of years have witnessed a tremendous progress in self-supervised learning (SSL), the success of which can be attributed to the introduction of useful inductive biases in the learning process to learn meaningful visual…

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There is a striking convergence between Burgers turbulence and the continuous spontaneous localization [CSL] model of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we exploit this analogy showing the similarities in the physics of these two apparently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. F. Santos , C. O. Escobar

Spin squeezing in atomic ensembles enables atom interferometry with sensitivities below the shot-noise limit, but the associated entanglement is highly susceptible to loss, making imperfections in atom optics a central limitation. Bragg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Christian Miguel Karres , Daniel Derr , Enno Giese

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 report on a study of the long-term stability and absolute accuracy of an atom interferometer gyroscope. This study included the implementation of an electro-optical technique to reverse the vector area of the interferometer for reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. S. Durfee , Y. K. Shaham , M. A. Kasevich

In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), various pretext tasks are designed for learning feature representations through contrastive loss. However, previous studies have shown that this loss is less tolerant to semantically similar samples due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Shanshan Wang , Soumya Tripathy , Annamaria Mesaros

We report on progress towards a measurement of the fine structure constant to an accuracy of $5\times 10^{-10}$ or better by measuring the ratio of the Planck constant to the mass of the cesium atom. Compared to similar experiments, ours is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Mueller , Sheng-wey Chiow , Quan Long , Christoph Vo , Steven Chu

Contrastive Self-supervised Learning (CSL) is a practical solution that learns meaningful visual representations from massive data in an unsupervised approach. The ordinary CSL embeds the features extracted from neural networks onto…

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Human brain employs perceptual information about the head and eye movements to update the spatial relationship between the individual and the surrounding environment. Based on this cognitive process known as spatial updating, we introduce…

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Long-time atom interferometry is instrumental to various high-precision measurements of fundamental physical properties, including tests of the equivalence principle. Due to rotations and gravity gradients, the classical trajectories…

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Clock atom interferometry is an emerging technique in precision measurements that is particularly well suited for sensitivity enhancement through large momentum transfer (LMT). While current systems have demonstrated momentum separations of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yijun Jiang , Jan Rudolph , Jason M. Hogan

Contrastive self-supervised learning (SSL) learns an embedding space that maps similar data pairs closer and dissimilar data pairs farther apart. Despite its success, one issue has been overlooked: the fairness aspect of representations…

We report on a trapped atom interferometer based on Bragg diffraction and Bloch oscillations with alkaline-earth-metal atoms. We use a Ramsey-Bord\'e Bragg interferometer with $^{88}$Sr atoms combined with Bloch oscillations to extend the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Xian Zhang , Ruben Pablo del Aguila , Tommaso Mazzoni , Nicola Poli , Guglielmo M. Tino