Phononic gravity gradiometry with Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:2001.10104
Abstract
Gravity gradiometry with Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) has reached unprecedented precisions. The basis of this technique is the measurement of differential forces by interference of single-atom wave functions. In this article, we propose a gradiometry scheme where phonons, the collective oscillations of a trapped BEC's atoms are used instead. We show that our scheme could, in principle, enable high-precision measurements of gravity gradients of bodies such as the Earth or small spheres with masses down to the milligram scale. The fundamental error bound of our gravity gradiometry scheme corresponds to a differential force sensitivity in the nano-gal range per experimental realization on the length scale of the BEC.
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