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 …

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 …

Quantum superposition at the half-metre scale

T Kovachy, P Asenbaum, C Overstreet, CA Donnelly… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The quantum superposition principle allows massive particles to be delocalized over distant
positions. Though quantum mechanics has proved adept at describing the microscopic …

Precision gravimetry with atomic sensors

M de Angelis, A Bertoldi, L Cacciapuoti… - Measurement …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Atom interferometers have been shown to be very stable and accurate sensors for
acceleration and rotation. In this paper we review the applications of atom interferometry to …

Demonstration of an ultrahigh-sensitivity atom-interferometry absolute gravimeter

ZK Hu, BL Sun, XC Duan, MK Zhou, LL Chen… - Physical Review A …, 2013 - APS
We present an ultrahigh-sensitivity gravimeter based on an 87 Rb atom interferometer using
stimulated Raman transitions. Compared with our previous work, a two-dimensional …

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 …

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 …

Sensitive absolute-gravity gradiometry using atom interferometry

JM Mcguirk, GT Foster, JB Fixler, MJ Snadden… - Physical Review A, 2002 - APS
We report the demonstration of a sensitive absolute-gravity gradiometer based on light-
pulse atom-interference techniques. The gradiometer consists of two absolute …

[KNJIGA][B] Photorefractive materials and their applications

P Günter, JP Huignard, AM Glass - 1988 - Springer
This is the first volume of a set of three within the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, and is
devoted to photorefractive effects, photorefractive materials, and their applications. Since the …

Atom interferometry with floquet atom optics

T Wilkason, M Nantel, J Rudolph, Y Jiang, BE Garber… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Floquet engineering offers a compelling approach for designing the time evolution of
periodically driven systems. We implement a periodic atom-light coupling to realize Floquet …