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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important medical imaging modality, while it requires a long acquisition time. To reduce the acquisition time, various methods have been proposed. However, these methods failed to reconstruct images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Qiaosi Yi , Jinhao Liu , Le Hu , Faming Fang , Guixu Zhang

This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formalism that accurately describes realistic, non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Julian Günther , Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siemß , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

This paper describes the Light-Shift Laser-Lock (LSLL) technique, a novel method intended for compact atomic clocks that greatly simplifies the laser setup by stabilizing the pumping-laser frequency to the atoms involved in the clock,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Claudio E. Calosso , Michele Gozzelino , Filippo Levi , Salvatore Micalizio

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has long been proved to be an effective technique to construct powerful models with limited labels. In the existing literature, consistency regularization-based methods, which force the perturbed samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Xihong Yang , Xiaochang Hu , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu

Contrastive methods have led a recent surge in the performance of self-supervised representation learning (SSL). Recent methods like BYOL or SimSiam purportedly distill these contrastive methods down to their essence, removing bells and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Alexander C. Li , Alexei A. Efros , Deepak Pathak

Wave function collapse models postulate a fundamental breakdown of the quantum superposition principle at the macroscale. Therefore, experimental tests of collapse models are also fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. Here, we compute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 M. Carlesso , A. Bassi , P. Falferi , A. Vinante

We study the ultimate bounds on the sensitivity of a Bloch-oscillation atom interferometer where the external force is estimated from the measurement of the on-site atomic density. For external forces such that the energy difference between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 I. Nałȩcz , L. Masi , G. Ferioli , T. Petrucciani , M. Fattori , J. Chwedeńczuk

We observe matterwave interference of a single cesium atom in free fall. The interferometer is an absolute sensor of acceleration and we show that this technique is sensitive to forces at the level of $3.2\times10^{-27}$ N with a spatial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Paul Parazzoli , Aaron M. Hankin , Grant W. Biedermann

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 here on the realization of light-pulse atom interferometers with Large-momentum-transfer atom optics based on a sequence of Bragg transitions. We demonstrate momentum splitting up to 200 photon recoils in an ultra-cold atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Ashley Béguin , Tangui Rodzinka , Léo Calmels , Baptiste Allard , Alexandre Gauguet

Atom interferometers are used in a variety of applications, from measuring gravity and gravity gradients in the field to performing tests of fundamental physics in the lab. One method of increasing interferometer sensitivity is to produce a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jack Roth , Andrew Christensen , Madeline Bernstein , Yuno Iwasaki , Holger Mueller

Bragg Diffraction of matter waves is an established technique used in the most accurate quantum sensors. It is also the method of choice to operate large-momentum-transfer, high-sensitivity atom interferometers. It suffers, however, from an…

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has managed to match or surpass the performance of supervised learning in image and video classification. However, it is still largely unknown if the nature of the representations induced by the…

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Super-resolution microscopy has revolutionized the imaging of complex physical and biological systems by surpassing the Abbe diffraction limit. Recent advancements, particularly in single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), have pushed…

Place recognition is an essential and challenging task in loop closing and global localization for robotics and autonomous driving applications. Benefiting from the recent advances in deep learning techniques, the performance of LiDAR place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiafeng Cui , Xieyuanli Chen

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, dimensional collapse, where embeddings converge into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Huanran Li , Manh Nguyen , Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón

Observations of ultra-dense substructures in strong lensing systems challenge the standard cosmological model at small scales. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), as an alternative to the cold and collisionless dark matter (CDM) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yuxuan He , Weiyang Wang , Chen Zhang , Yi-Ming Zhong

Contrast-Consistent Search (CCS) is an unsupervised probing method able to test whether large language models represent binary features, such as sentence truth, in their internal activations. While CCS has shown promise, its two-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Stefan F. Schouten , Peter Bloem

Neural networks exhibit severe brittleness to semantically irrelevant transformations. A mere 75ms electrocardiogram (ECG) phase shift degrades latent cosine similarity from 1.0 to 0.2, while sensor rotations collapse activity recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Zhengyang Shen , Hua Tu , Mayue Shi

Single-molecule detection enables direct observation of individual biomolecular events, providing mechanistic insights into biological processes and offering a powerful tool for disease diagnostics. However, the fundamental scale mismatch…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-14 Guifeng Li , Chaoyang Gong