Search for new physics with atoms and molecules

MS Safronova, D Budker, D DeMille, DFJ Kimball… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

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 measurement of the Newtonian gravitational constant using cold atoms

G Rosi, F Sorrentino, L Cacciapuoti, M Prevedelli… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
About 300 experiments have tried to determine the value of the Newtonian gravitational
constant, G, so far, but large discrepancies in the results have made it impossible to know its …

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 …

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 …

CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants: 2006

PJ Mohr, BN Taylor, DB Newell - Journal of Physical and Chemical …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
1.1. Background This paper gives the complete 2006 CODATA self-consistent set of
recommended values of the fundamental physical constants and describes in detail the …

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 …

Exploring gravity with the MIGA large scale atom interferometer

B Canuel, A Bertoldi, L Amand, E Pozzo di Borgo… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
We present the MIGA experiment, an underground long baseline atom interferometer to
study gravity at large scale. The hybrid atom-laser antenna will use several atom …

Atom interferometer measurement of the Newtonian constant of gravity

JB Fixler, GT Foster, JM McGuirk, MA Kasevich - Science, 2007 - science.org
We measured the Newtonian constant of gravity, G, using a gravity gradiometer based on
atom interferometry. The gradiometer measures the differential acceleration of two samples …

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 …