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 …

Atomic sensors–a review

J Kitching, S Knappe, EA Donley - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss the basic physics and instrumentation issues related to high-performance
physical and inertial sensors based on atomic spectroscopy. Recent work on atomic …

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 …

Measurement of the Earth tides with a MEMS gravimeter

RP Middlemiss, A Samarelli, DJ Paul, J Hough… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The ability to measure tiny variations in the local gravitational acceleration allows, besides
other applications, the detection of hidden hydrocarbon reserves, magma build-up before …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 and comparison with a classical gravimeter

N Poli, FY Wang, MG Tarallo, A Alberti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2010 - arxiv.org
We report on a high precision measurement of gravitational acceleration using ultracold
strontium atoms trapped in a vertical optical lattice. Using amplitude modulation of the lattice …