Observation of a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect

C Overstreet, P Asenbaum, J Curti, M Kim… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Gravity curves space and time. This can lead to proper time differences between freely
falling, nonlocal trajectories. A spatial superposition of a massive particle is predicted to be …

Enhancing the sensitivity of atom-interferometric inertial sensors using robust control

JC Saywell, MS Carey, PS Light, SS Szigeti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Atom-interferometric quantum sensors could revolutionize navigation, civil engineering, and
Earth observation. However, operation in real-world environments is challenging due to …

Robust quantum control via multipath interference for thousandfold phase amplification in a resonant atom interferometer

Y Wang, J Glick, T Deshpande, K DeRose, S Saraf… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We introduce a novel technique for enhancing the robustness of light-pulse atom
interferometers against the pulse infidelities that typically limit their sensitivities. The …

Atom interferometry with coherent enhancement of Bragg pulse sequences

A Béguin, T Rodzinka, L Calmels, B Allard… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
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 …

Toward a high-precision mass–energy test of the equivalence principle with atom interferometers

L Zhou, ST Yan, YH Ji, C He, JJ Jiang, Z Hou… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The equivalence principle (EP) is a basic assumption of the general relativity. The quantum
test of the equivalence principle with atoms is an important way to examine the applicable …

High-power, low-phase-noise, frequency-agile laser system for delivering fiber-noise-canceled pulses for strontium clock atom interferometry

K DeRose, T Deshpande, Y Wang, T Kovachy - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present a laser system for performing single-photon atom interferometry on the 698 nm
clock transition in ultracold strontium. We coherently combine the power of two titanium …

Multi-loop atomic Sagnac interferometry

C Schubert, S Abend, M Gersemann, M Gebbe… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The sensitivity of light and matter-wave interferometers to rotations is based on the Sagnac
effect and increases with the area enclosed by the interferometer. In the case of light, the …

Circulating pulse cavity enhancement as a method for extreme momentum transfer atom interferometry

R Nourshargh, S Lellouch, S Hedges… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Large-scale atom interferometers promise unrivaled strain sensitivity to mid-band
gravitational waves, and will probe a new parameter space in the search for ultra-light scalar …

Robust low-noise 795-nm single-frequency fiber laser with continuous frequency tuning

X Cheng, X Yang, H Jiang, X Zeng, Y Feng - Optical Fiber Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a highly efficient and low-noise all-fiber single-frequency (SF) 795-nm
laser system realized using a simple and robust single-pass frequency-doubling …

Simple and robust architecture of a laser system for atom interferometry

S Sarkar, R Piccon, S Merlet, F Pereira dos Santos - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report a compact and robust architecture of a versatile laser system that allows the
implementation of several advanced atom interferometry techniques, such as Bragg …