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Matter-wave interferometry with atoms propagating in a guiding potential is expected to provide compact, scalable and precise inertial sensing. However, a rotation sensing device based on the Sagnac effect with atoms guided in a ring has…

We describe a matter-wave Sagnac interferometer using Bose condensed atoms confined in a time-orbiting potential trap. Compared to our previous implementation [Moan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120403 (2020)], our new apparatus provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 M. Beydler , E. R. Moan , Z. Luo , Z. Chu , C. A. Sackett

The advantages of light and matter-wave Sagnac interferometers -- large area on one hand and high rotational sensitivity per unit area on the other -- can be combined utilizing ultra-slow light in cold atomic gases. While a group-velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Zimmer , M. Fleischhauer

The ability to interferometrically detect inertial rotations via the Sagnac effect has been a strong stimulus for the development of atom interferometry because of the potential 10^{10} enhancement of the rotational phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chris P. Search , John R. E. Toland , Marko Zivkovic

The light--matter-wave Sagnac interferometer based on ultra-slow light proposed recently in (Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 253201 (2004)) is analyzed in detail. In particular the effect of confining potentials is examined and it is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. E. Zimmer , M. Fleischhauer

Since the first atom interferometry experiments in 1991, measurements of rotation through the Sagnac effect in open-area atom interferometers has been studied. These studies have demonstrated very high sensitivity which can compete with…

Sensitive and accurate rotation sensing is a critical requirement for applications such as inertial navigation [1], north-finding [2], geophysical analysis [3], and tests of general relativity [4]. One effective technique used for rotation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 E. R. Moan , R. A. Horne , T. Arpornthip , Z. Luo , A. J. Fallon , S. J. Berl , C. A. Sackett

A rotating interferometer with paths that enclose a physical area exhibits a phase shift proportional to this area and to the rotation rate of the frame. Understanding the origin of this so-called Sagnac effect has played a key role in the…

We theoretically analyze the operating principles of a proposed matter-wave Sagnac interferometer utilizing Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phonon modes as an interference medium. Previous work found that the orbital angular momentum phonon…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-08 B. J. Mommers , M. W. J. Bromley

Quantum information processing with geometric features of quantum states may provide promising noise-resilient schemes for quantum metrology. In this work, we theoretically explore phase-space geometric Sagnac interferometers with trapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Yanming Che , Fei Yao , Hongbin Liang , Guolong Li , Xiaoguang Wang

We demonstrate an experiment which utilizes a Sagnac interferometer to measure a change in optical frequency of 129 kHz per root Hz with only 2 mW of continuous wave, single mode input power. We describe the measurement of a weak value and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 M. Kolár , T. Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

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…

The non-reciprocity of Sagnac interferometer provides ultra-high sensitivity for parameter estimation and offers a wide range of applications, especially for optical fiber sensing. In this work, we study a new type of non-reciprocity…

The intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains an open frontier in fundamental physics, with few experimentally accessible phenomena connecting the two. Recent theoretical proposals suggest that relativistic proper…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-23 Mohamed ElKabbash

Sagnac interferometers with massive particles promise unique advantages in achieving high precision measurements of rotation rates over their optical counterparts. Recent proposals and experiments are exploring non-ballistic Sagnac…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Yijia Zhou , Igor Lesanovsky , Thomas Fernholz , Weibin Li

We use an effective one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study bright matter-wave solitons held in a tightly confining toroidal trapping potential, in a rotating frame of reference, as they are split and recombined on narrow barrier…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-08 J. L. Helm , S. L. Cornish , S. A. Gardiner

We present two novel matter-wave Sagnac interferometers based on ring- shaped time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAP). For both the atoms are put into a superposition of two different spin states and manipulated independently using…

We describe a weak value inspired phase amplification technique in a Sagnac interferometer. We monitor the relative phase between two paths of a slightly misaligned interferometer by measuring the average position of a split-Gaussian mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 David J. Starling , P. Ben Dixon , Nathan S. Williams , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

We demonstrate a nontraditional design of the Sagnac interferometer by replacing the commonly used beam splitter with a linear-optical Grover multiport. This substitution creates a pole at the origin of the device parameter space with an…

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