Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases

C Chin, R Grimm, P Julienne, E Tiesinga - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Feshbach resonances are the essential tool to control the interaction between atoms in
ultracold quantum gases. They have found numerous experimental applications, opening up …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Bose-Einstein condensation of cesium

T Weber, J Herbig, M Mark, HC Nagerl, R Grimm - Science, 2003 - science.org
Bose-Einstein condensation of cesium atoms is achieved by evaporative cooling using
optical trapping techniques. The ability to tune the interactions between the ultracold atoms …

Atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential

Y Shin, M Saba, TA Pasquini, W Ketterle, DE Pritchard… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
A trapped-atom interferometer was demonstrated using gaseous Bose-Einstein
condensates coherently split by deforming an optical single-well potential into a double-well …

Atomic Interferometer with Amplitude Gratings of Light and Its Applications<? format?> to Atom Based Tests of the Equivalence Principle

S Fray, CA Diez, TW Hänsch, M Weitz - Physical Review Letters, 2004 - APS
We have developed a matter wave interferometer based on the diffraction of atoms from
effective absorption gratings of light. In a setup with cold rubidium atoms in an atomic …

Sculpting oscillators with light within a nonlinear quantum fluid

G Tosi, G Christmann, NG Berloff, P Tsotsis, T Gao… - Nature physics, 2012 - nature.com
Seeing macroscopic quantum states directly remains an elusive goal. Particles with boson
symmetry can condense into quantum fluids, producing rich physical phenomena as well as …

Atom interferometry with up to 24-photon-momentum-transfer beam splitters

H Müller, S Chiow, Q Long, S Herrmann, S Chu - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We present up to 24-photon Bragg diffraction as a beam splitter in light-pulse atom
interferometers to achieve the largest splitting in momentum space so far. Relative to the 2 …

High-resolution magnetometry with a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

M Vengalattore, JM Higbie, SR Leslie, J Guzman… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
We demonstrate a precise magnetic microscope based on direct imaging of the Larmor
precession of a Rb 87 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. This magnetometer attains a field …