Quantum sensing

CL Degen, F Reinhard, P Cappellaro - Reviews of modern physics, 2017 - APS
“Quantum sensing” describes the use of a quantum system, quantum properties, or quantum
phenomena to perform a measurement of a physical quantity. Historical examples of …

Tests of chameleon gravity

C Burrage, J Sakstein - Living reviews in relativity, 2018 - Springer
Theories of modified gravity, where light scalars with non-trivial self-interactions and non-
minimal couplings to matter—chameleon and symmetron theories—dynamically suppress …

Measuring gravitational attraction with a lattice atom interferometer

CD Panda, MJ Tao, M Ceja, J Khoury, GM Tino… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Despite being the dominant force of nature on large scales, gravity remains relatively elusive
to precision laboratory experiments. Atom interferometers are powerful tools for …

Testing sub-gravitational forces on atoms from a miniature in-vacuum source mass

M Jaffe, P Haslinger, V Xu, P Hamilton, A Upadhye… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Traditional gravity measurements use bulk masses to both source and probe gravitational
fields. Matter-wave interferometers enable the use of probe masses as small as neutrons …

What makes the Universe accelerate? A review on what dark energy could be and how to test it

P Brax - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Explaining the origin of the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe remains as
challenging as ever. In this review, we present different approaches from dark energy to …

Chameleon dark energy and atom interferometry

B Elder, J Khoury, P Haslinger, M Jaffe, H Müller… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Atom interferometry experiments are searching for evidence of chameleon scalar fields with
ever-increasing precision. As experiments become more precise, so too must theoretical …

Search for Screened Interactions Associated with Dark Energy below the Length Scale

AD Rider, DC Moore, CP Blakemore, M Louis, M Lu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We present the results of a search for unknown interactions that couple to mass between an
optically levitated microsphere and a gold-coated silicon cantilever. The scale and geometry …

A compendium of chameleon constraints

C Burrage, J Sakstein - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The chameleon model is a scalar field theory with a screening mechanism that explains how
a cosmologically relevant light scalar can avoid the constraints of intra-solar-system …

Tests of fundamental quantum mechanics and dark interactions with low-energy neutrons

S Sponar, RIP Sedmik, M Pitschmann, H Abele… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Among the known particles, the neutron is special because it provides experimental access
to all of the four fundamental forces and a wide range of hypothetical interactions. Despite …

Searches for exotic interactions using neutrons

WM Snow, C Haddock, B Heacock - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
Slow neutrons possess several advantageous properties which make them useful probes for
a variety of exotic interactions, including some that can form at least some components of the …