Advances toward fieldable atom interferometers

FA Narducci, AT Black, JH Burke - Advances in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We review the field of atom interferometer inertial sensors. We begin by reviewing the path
integral formulation of atom interferometers and then specialize the treatment to light-pulse …

Gravity measurements below 10−9g with a transportable absolute quantum gravimeter

V Ménoret, P Vermeulen, N Le Moigne, S Bonvalot… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Gravimetry is a well-established technique for the determination of sub-surface mass
distribution needed in several fields of geoscience, and various types of gravimeters have …

Absolute marine gravimetry with matter-wave interferometry

Y Bidel, N Zahzam, C Blanchard, A Bonnin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Measuring gravity from an aircraft or a ship is essential in geodesy, geophysics, mineral and
hydrocarbon exploration, and navigation. Today, only relative sensors are available for …

Continuous Cold-Atom Inertial Sensor with Rotation Stability

I Dutta, D Savoie, B Fang, B Venon, CL Garrido Alzar… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We report the operation of a cold-atom inertial sensor which continuously captures the
rotation signal. Using a joint interrogation scheme, where we simultaneously prepare a cold …

High-accuracy inertial measurements with cold-atom sensors

R Geiger, A Landragin, S Merlet… - AVS Quantum …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The research on cold-atom interferometers gathers a large community of about 50 groups
worldwide both in the academic and now in the industrial sectors. The interest in this sub …

Detecting inertial effects with airborne matter-wave interferometry

R Geiger, V Ménoret, G Stern, N Zahzam… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Inertial sensors relying on atom interferometry offer a breakthrough advance in a variety of
applications, such as inertial navigation, gravimetry or ground-and space-based tests of …

Experiment to detect dark energy forces using atom interferometry

DO Sabulsky, I Dutta, EA Hinds, B Elder, C Burrage… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The accelerated expansion of the universe motivates a wide class of scalar field theories
that modify general relativity (GR) on large scales. Such theories require a screening …

Effects and prospects of the vibration isolation methods for an atomic interference gravimeter

W Gong, A Li, C Huang, H Che, C Feng, F Qin - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
An atomic interference gravimeter (AIG) is of great value in underwater aided navigation, but
one of the constraints on its accuracy is vibration noise. For this reason, technology must be …

Navigation-compatible hybrid quantum accelerometer using a Kalman filter

P Cheiney, L Fouché, S Templier, F Napolitano… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Long-term inertial navigation is currently limited by the bias drifts of gyroscopes and
accelerometers and ultrastable cold-atom interferometers offer a promising alternative for …

Tracking the vector acceleration with a hybrid quantum accelerometer triad

S Templier, P Cheiney, Q d'Armagnac de Castanet… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Robust and accurate acceleration tracking remains a challenge in many fields. For
geophysics and economic geology, precise gravity mapping requires onboard sensors …