The atom interferometer as an entire entity 'self corrects' for the imperfections in each laser pulse. We can't make each laser pulse perfect, but we can optimize the global sequence of pulses to ...

Atom interferometers have also found their way into industry and are used in geological surveys, mineral exploration, environmental monitoring, and for the development of precision atomic clocks ...

Atom-optics research centers on the development of atom waveguides, atom "chip" technology, and the use of Bose-Einstein condensates to make practical devices. The group is currently developing ...

The resolution and the sensitivity of typical atom interferometers scale quadratically with the duration of the free fall. Application scenarios for such quantum sensors with superior sensitivity are ...

By releasing the atoms from the trap, the atoms freely fall along the gravity direction. This allows the researchers to measure their free falling acceleration using atom interferometry. In their ...

This is why current research is taking a very different approach to this type of sensing; namely the atom interferometer. Back in 1924 French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed that matter ...

The projects will provide more complex trap geometries for atoms, generation of ensembles with higher numbers of atoms, and light-pulse atom interferometry at extended time scales. The topics cover a ...