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most citedSensitivity limits of a Raman atom interferometer as a gravity gradiometer

228 citations · 790 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Towards Entanglement-Enhanced Atom Interferometry Using Bow-Tie Cavities

Christian Mancini, Marco Malitesta, Tommaso Mariani +7

Atom interferometers are among the most sensitive instruments for precision measurements and tests of fundamental physics. Their performance, however, is ultimately limited by quan…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Trapping, manipulating and probing ultracold atoms: a quantum technologies tutorial

Louise Wolswijk, Luca Cavicchioli, Giuseppe Vinelli +12

Engineered ultracold atomic systems are a valuable platform for fundamental quantum mechanics studies and the development of quantum technologies. At near zero absolute temperature…

quant-ph2025

Squeezing-enhanced accurate differential sensing under large phase noise

Robin Corgier, Marco Malitesta, Leonid A. Sidorenkov +6

Atom interferometers are reaching sensitivities fundamentally constrained by quantum fluctuations. A main challenge is to integrate entanglement into quantum sensing protocols to e…

hep-ex2024

Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Summary of the Second Workshop

Adam Abdalla, Mahiro Abe, Sven Abend +307

This summary of the second Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry (TVLBAI) Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of our meeting held in London in April 2024, build…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 2 cited

Towards the formation of a positronium coherent beam

M. Sacerdoti, V. Toso, G. Vinelli +5

Positronium (Ps) has emerged as a promising test particle within the QUPLAS collaboration for investigating the gravitational effect. In this work, we present a novel approach to g…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 9 cited

A large-momentum-transfer matter-wave interferometer to measure the effect of gravity on positronium

G. Vinelli, F. Castelli, R. Ferragut +7

This paper reports the study of a new interferometric configuration to measure the effect of gravity on positronium. A Mach-Zehnder matter-wave interferometer has been designed to…

physics.atom-ph2022

Practical limits for large-momentum-transfer clock atom interferometers

Mauro Chiarotti, Jonathan N. Tinsley, Satvika Bandarupally +4

Atom interferometry on optical clock transitions is being pursued for numerous long-baseline experiments both terrestrially and for future space missions. Crucial to meeting these…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road-Map

Ivan Alonso, Cristiano Alpigiani, Brett Altschul +246

We summarize the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal opportu…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 34 cited

Watt-level blue light for precision spectroscopy, laser cooling and trapping of strontium and cadmium atoms

Jonathan N. Tinsley, Satvika Bandarupally, Jussi-Pekka Penttinen +5

High-power and narrow-linewidth laser light is a vital tool for atomic physics, being used for example in laser cooling and trapping and precision spectroscopy. Here we produce Wat…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 5 cited

Canceling the cavity length induced phase noise in an optical ring cavity for phase shift measurement and spin squeezing

Enlong Wang, Gunjan Verma, Jonathan N. Tinsley +2

We demonstrate a new method of light phase shift measurement using a high-finesse optical ring cavity which exhibits reduced phase noise due to cavity length fluctuations. Two lase…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 56 cited

Sr atom interferometry with the optical clock transition as a gravimeter and a gravity gradiometer

Liang Hu, Enlong Wang, Leonardo Salvi +3

We characterize the performance of a gravimeter and a gravity gradiometer based on the S-P clock transition of strontium atoms. We use this new quantum sensor t…

physics.atom-ph2019

Squeezed state metrology with Bragg interferometers operating in a cavity

Athreya Shankar, Leonardo Salvi, Maria Luisa Chiofalo +2

Bragg interferometers, operating using pseudospin-1/2 systems composed of two momentum states, have become a mature technology for precision measurements. State-of-the-art Bragg in…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 124 cited

Near-Unitary Spin Squeezing in Yb

Boris Braverman, Akio Kawasaki, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +9

Spin squeezing can improve atomic precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL), and unitary spin squeezing is essential for improving atomic clocks. We report sub…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 23 cited

Geometrically asymmetric optical cavity for strong atom-photon coupling

Akio Kawasaki, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +11

Optical cavities are widely used to enhance the interaction between atoms and light. Typical designs using a geometrically symmetric structure in the near-concentric regime face a…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 27 cited

Bragg gravity-gradiometer using the S-P intercombination transition of Sr

Ruben P. del Aguila, Tommaso Mazzoni, Liang Hu +3

We present a gradiometer based on matter-wave interference of alkaline-earth-metal atoms, namely Sr. The coherent manipulation of the atomic external degrees of freedom is o…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 145 cited

Atom interferometry with the Sr optical clock transition

Liang Hu, Nicola Poli, Leonardo Salvi +1

We report on the realization of a matter-wave interferometer based on single-photon interaction on the ultra-narrow optical clock transition of strontium atoms. We experimentally d…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 61 cited

Squeezing on momentum states for atom interferometry

Leonardo Salvi, Nicola Poli, Vladan Vuletic +1

We propose and analyse a method that allows for the production of squeezed states of the atomic center-of-mass motion that can be injected into an atom interferometer. Our scheme e…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 73 cited

Large-momentum-transfer Bragg interferometer with strontium atoms

T. Mazzoni, X. Zhang, R. Del Aguila +3

We report on the first atom interferometer based on Bragg diffraction in a fountain of alkaline-earth atoms, namely Sr. We demonstrate large momentum transfer to the atoms u…

quant-ph2013★ 228 cited

Sensitivity limits of a Raman atom interferometer as a gravity gradiometer

F. Sorrentino, Q. Bodart, L. Cacciapuoti +5

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…