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 …

Matter-wave atomic gradiometer interferometric sensor (MAGIS-100)

M Abe, P Adamson, M Borcean… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
MAGIS-100 is a next-generation quantum sensor under construction at Fermilab that aims to
explore fundamental physics with atom interferometry over a 100 m baseline. This novel …

Atom lasers: Production, properties and prospects for precision inertial measurement

NP Robins, PA Altin, JE Debs, JD Close - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
We review experimental progress on atom lasers out-coupled from Bose–Einstein
condensates, and consider the properties of such beams in the context of precision inertial …

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 …

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 …

New method for gravitational wave detection with atomic sensors

PW Graham, JM Hogan, MA Kasevich, S Rajendran - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Laser frequency noise is a dominant noise background for the detection of gravitational
waves using long-baseline optical interferometry. Amelioration of this noise requires near …

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 …

Limits to the sensitivity of a low noise compact atomic gravimeter

J Le Gouët, TE Mehlstäubler, J Kim, S Merlet… - Applied Physics B, 2008 - Springer
A detailed analysis of the most relevant sources of phase noise in an atomic interferometer
is carried out, both theoretically and experimentally. Even a short interrogation time of 100 …

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 …

Simultaneous dual-species matter-wave accelerometer

A Bonnin, N Zahzam, Y Bidel, A Bresson - Physical Review A, 2013 - APS
We report the realization of a matter-wave interferometer based on Raman transitions which
simultaneously interrogates two different atomic species (87 Rb and 85 Rb). The …