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] 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 …

Matter-wave atomic gradiometer interferometric sensor (MAGIS-100)

M Abe, P Adamson, M Borcean… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
MAGIS-100 is a next-generation quantum sensor under construction at Fermilab that aims to
explore fundamental physics with atom interferometry over a 100 m baseline. This novel …

Collective-mode enhanced matter-wave optics

C Deppner, W Herr, M Cornelius, P Stromberger… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
In contrast to light, matter-wave optics of quantum gases deals with interactions even in free
space and for ensembles comprising millions of atoms. We exploit these interactions in a …

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 …

[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] Testing universality of Feynman-Tan relation in interacting Bose gases using high-order Bragg spectra

Y Wang, H Du, Y Li, F Mei, Y Hu, L Xiao… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Feynman-Tan relation, obtained by combining the Feynman energy relation
with the Tan's two-body contact, can explain the excitation spectra of strongly interacting 39K …

Phase shift in an atom interferometer due to spacetime curvature across its wave function

P Asenbaum, C Overstreet, T Kovachy, DD Brown… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Spacetime curvature induces tidal forces on the wave function of a single quantum system.
Using a dual light-pulse atom interferometer, we measure a phase shift associated with such …

Large momentum transfer clock atom interferometry on the 689 nm intercombination line of strontium

J Rudolph, T Wilkason, M Nantel, H Swan, CM Holland… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We report the first realization of large momentum transfer (LMT) clock atom interferometry.
Using single-photon interactions on the strontium S 1 0-P 3 1 transition, we demonstrate …

Effective inertial frame in an atom interferometric test of the equivalence principle

C Overstreet, P Asenbaum, T Kovachy, R Notermans… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
In an ideal test of the equivalence principle, the test masses fall in a common inertial frame.
A real experiment is affected by gravity gradients, which introduce systematic errors by …