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] Quantum physics in space

A Belenchia, M Carlesso, Ö Bayraktar, D Dequal… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in quantum technologies are giving rise to a revolution in the way fundamental
physics questions are explored at the empirical level. At the same time, they are the seeds …

Observation of Bose–Einstein condensates in an Earth-orbiting research lab

DC Aveline, JR Williams, ER Elliott, C Dutenhoffer… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum mechanics governs the microscopic world, where low mass and momentum reveal
a natural wave–particle duality. Magnifying quantum behaviour to macroscopic scales is a …

Pathfinder experiments with atom interferometry in the Cold Atom Lab onboard the International Space Station

JR Williams, CA Sackett, H Ahlers, DC Aveline… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deployment of ultracold atom interferometers (AI) into space will capitalize on quantum
advantages and the extended freefall of persistent microgravity to provide high-precision …

Testing gravity with cold atom interferometry: results and prospects

GM Tino - Quantum Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Atom interferometers have been developed in the last three decades as new powerful tools
to investigate gravity. They were used for measuring the gravity acceleration, the gravity …

Bright solitonic matter-wave interferometer

GD McDonald, CCN Kuhn, KS Hardman, S Bennetts… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We present the first realization of a solitonic atom interferometer. A Bose-Einstein
condensate of 1× 10 4 atoms of rubidium-85 is loaded into a horizontal optical waveguide …

Technology roadmap for cold-atoms based quantum inertial sensor in space

S Abend, B Allard, AS Arnold, T Ban, L Barry… - AVS Quantum …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recent developments in quantum technology have resulted in a new generation of sensors
for measuring inertial quantities, such as acceleration and rotation. These sensors can …

Correlative methods for dual-species quantum tests of the weak equivalence principle

B Barrett, L Antoni-Micollier, L Chichet… - New Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Matter-wave interferometers utilizing different isotopes or chemical elements intrinsically
have different sensitivities, and the analysis tools available until now are insufficient for …

Design of a dual species atom interferometer for space

T Schuldt, C Schubert, M Krutzik, LG Bote… - Experimental …, 2015 - Springer
Atom interferometers have a multitude of proposed applications in space including precise
measurements of the Earth's gravitational field, in navigation & ranging, and in fundamental …

A chip‐scale oscillation‐mode optomechanical inertial sensor near the thermodynamical limits

Y Huang, JG Flor Flores, Y Li, W Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modern navigation systems integrate the global positioning system (GPS) with an inertial
navigation system (INS), which complement each other for correct attitude and velocity …