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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in atomic gyroscopes: A view from inertial navigation applications

JC Fang, J Qin - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development of modern physics, atomic gyroscopes have been demonstrated
in recent years. There are two types of atomic gyroscope. The Atomic Interferometer …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

Quantum test of the universality of free fall

D Schlippert, J Hartwig, H Albers, LL Richardson… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We simultaneously measure the gravitationally induced phase shift in two Raman-type
matter-wave interferometers operated with laser-cooled ensembles of Rb 87 and K 39 …

Interleaved atom interferometry for high-sensitivity inertial measurements

D Savoie, M Altorio, B Fang, LA Sidorenkov… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Cold-atom inertial sensors target several applications in navigation, geoscience, and tests of
fundamental physics. Achieving high sampling rates and high inertial sensitivities, obtained …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring gravity with the MIGA large scale atom interferometer

B Canuel, A Bertoldi, L Amand, E Pozzo di Borgo… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
We present the MIGA experiment, an underground long baseline atom interferometer to
study gravity at large scale. The hybrid atom-laser antenna will use several atom …

Probing gravity by holding atoms for 20 seconds

V Xu, M Jaffe, CD Panda, SL Kristensen, LW Clark… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Atom interferometers are powerful tools for both measurements in fundamental physics and
inertial sensing applications. Their performance, however, has been limited by the available …

[HTML][HTML] ELGAR—a European laboratory for gravitation and atom-interferometric research

B Canuel, S Abend, P Amaro-Seoane… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) were observed for the first time in 2015, one century after
Einstein predicted their existence. There is now growing interest to extend the detection …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …