Optics and interferometry with atoms and molecules

AD Cronin, J Schmiedmayer, DE Pritchard - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and
quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated …

Precision gravity tests and the Einstein equivalence principle

GM Tino, L Cacciapuoti, S Capozziello… - Progress in Particle and …, 2020 - Elsevier
General Relativity is today the best theory of gravity addressing a wide range of phenomena.
Our understanding of physical laws, from cosmology to local scales, cannot be properly …

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 …

Sensitivity limits of a Raman atom interferometer as a gravity gradiometer

F Sorrentino, Q Bodart, L Cacciapuoti, YH Lien… - Physical review A, 2014 - APS
We evaluate the sensitivity of a dual cloud atom interferometer to the measurement of
vertical gravity gradient. We study the influence of most relevant experimental parameters on …

Precision Measurement of Gravity with Cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice<? format?> and Comparison with a Classical Gravimeter

N Poli, FY Wang, MG Tarallo, A Alberti, M Prevedelli… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We report on a precision measurement of gravitational acceleration using ultracold strontium
atoms confined in an amplitude-modulated vertical optical lattice. An uncertainty Δ g/g≈ 10 …

Atom interferometry gravity-gradiometer for the determination of the Newtonian gravitational constant G

A Bertoldi, G Lamporesi, L Cacciapuoti… - The European Physical …, 2006 - Springer
We developed a gravity-gradiometer based on atom interferometry for the determination of
the Newtonian gravitational constant G. The apparatus, combining a Rb fountain, Raman …

Operating an atom-interferometry-based gravity gradiometer by the dual-fringe-locking method

XC Duan, MK Zhou, DK Mao, HB Yao, XB Deng, J Luo… - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We report a gravity gradiometer composed of two atom interferometers which are
simultaneously locked to the respective fringe center by feedback control of the Raman laser …

Simultaneous measurement of gravity acceleration and gravity gradient with an atom interferometer

F Sorrentino, A Bertoldi, Q Bodart, L Cacciapuoti… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a method to measure the gravitational acceleration with a dual cloud atom
interferometer; the use of simultaneous atom interferometers reduces the effect of seismic …

Sensitive gravity-gradiometry with atom interferometry: progress towards an improved determination of the gravitational constant

F Sorrentino, YH Lien, G Rosi… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present here the current status of our high-sensitivity gravity-gradiometer based on atom
interferometry. In our apparatus, two clouds of laser-cooled rubidium atoms are launched in …

Measuring the Newtonian constant of gravitation G with an atomic interferometer

M Prevedelli, L Cacciapuoti, G Rosi… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We have recently completed a measurement of the Newtonian constant of gravitation G
using atomic interferometry. Our result is G= 6.67191 (77)(62)× 10− 11 m3 kg− 1 s− 2 where …