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Technical Proposal for the Atom Interferometer CERN Experiment (AICE) Facility
Gianluigi Arduini, Nadja Augst, Mark G. Bason +79
We present the technical proposal for the Atom Interferometer CERN Experiment (AICE), a m vertical atom interferometer to be installed against the wall of the PX…
GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescence
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1783
We report the observation of gravitational waves from two binary black hole coalescences during the fourth observing run of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA detector network, GW241011 and GW…
Shear viscosity to entropy density ratio: A powerful tool for gravity theories and strongly coupled fluids
Marilù Chiofalo, Dario Grasso, Stefano Liberati +1
In this perspective review, we present a concise yet multifaceted overview of the pivotal role played by the the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio across various physical co…
GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The Kagra Collaboration +1783
GW230814, detected by the LIGO Livingston observatory with a signal-to-noise ratio of 42.4, represents the loudest gravitational-wave signal in the GWTC-4.0 catalog. Its source is…
Gravitational Waves and Black Hole perturbations in Acoustic Analogues
Chiara Coviello, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Dario Grasso +3
Phonons in Bose-Einstein condensates propagate as massless scalar particles on top of an emergent acoustic metric. This hydrodynamics/gravity analogy can be exploited to realize ac…
Quantum Time and the Time-Dilation induced Interaction Transfer mechanism
Dario Cafasso, Nicola Pranzini, Jorge Yago Malo +2
Given a bipartite quantum system in an energy eigenstate, the dynamical description for one component can be derived via entanglement using the other component as a clock. This is…
Atomic Quantum Technologies for Quantum Matter and Fundamental Physics Applications
Jorge Yago Malo, Luca Lepori, Laura Gentini +1
Physics is living an era of unprecedented cross-fertilization among the different areas of science. In this perspective review, we discuss the manifold impact that ultracold-atom q…
Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a Compact Object and a Neutron Star
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1793
We report the observation of a coalescing compact binary with component masses and (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible le…
Fractal ground state of ion chains in periodic potentials
Raphaël Menu, Jorge Yago Malo, Vladan Vuletić +2
Trapped ions in a periodic potential are a paradigm of a frustrated Wigner crystal. The dynamics is captured by a long-range Frenkel-Kontorova model. The classical ground state can…
Quantum frustrated Wigner chains
Raphaël Menu, Jorge Yago Malo, Vladan Vuletić +2
A Wigner chain in a periodic potential is a paradigmatic example of geometric frustration with long-range interactions. The dynamics emulates the Frenkel-Kontorova model with Coulo…
Quantum spin models for numerosity perception
Jorge Yago Malo, Guido Marco Cicchini, Maria Concetta Morrone +1
Humans share with animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates, the capacity to sense the number of items in their environment already at birth. The pervasiveness of this skill acro…
Beyond one-axis twisting: Simultaneous spin-momentum squeezing
John Drew Wilson, Simon B. Jäger, Jarrod T. Reilly +3
The creation and manipulation of quantum entanglement is central to improving precision measurements. A principal method of generating entanglement for use in atom interferometry i…
Dissipative processes at the acoustic horizon
Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Dario Grasso, Massimo Mannarelli +1
A transonic fluid flow generates an acoustic hole that is the hydrodynamic analogue of a gravitational black hole. Acoustic holes emit a detectable thermal radiation of phonons at…
Quantum Effects in the Aubry Transition
Pietro Maria Bonetti, Andrea Rucci, Vladan Vuletic +1
The Aubry transition between sliding and pinned phases, driven by the competition between two incommensurate length scales, represents a paradigm that is applicable to a large vari…
Adiabatic preparation of entangled, magnetically ordered states with cold bosons in optical lattices
Araceli Venegas-Gomez, Johannes Schachenmayer, Anton S. Buyskikh +3
We analyze a scheme for preparation of magnetically ordered states of two-component bosonic atoms in optical lattices. We compute the dynamics during adiabatic and optimized time-d…
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…
Quantum phases of spinful Fermi gases in optical cavities
E. Colella, R. Citro, M. Barsanti +2
We explore the quantum phases emerging from the interplay between spin and motional degrees of freedom of a one-dimensional quantum fluid of spinful fermionic atoms, effectively in…
Coherent transport of atomic wave packets in amplitude-modulated vertical optical lattices
A. Alberti, G. Ferrari, V. V. Ivanov +2
We report on the realization of dynamical control of transport for ultra-cold Sr88 atoms loaded in an accelerated and amplitude-modulated 1D optical lattice. We tailor the energy d…
Explicit finite-difference and direct-simulation-MonteCarlo method for the dynamics of mixed Bose-condensate and cold-atom clouds
P. Vignolo, M. L. Chiofalo, S. Succi +1
We present a new numerical method for studying the dynamics of quantum fluids composed of a Bose-Einstein condensate and a cloud of bosonic or fermionic atoms in a mean-field appro…
Hydrodynamic Excitations in a Spin-Polarized Fermi Gas under Harmonic Confinement in One Dimension
A. Minguzzi, P. Vignolo, M. L. Chiofalo +1
We consider a time-dependent non-linear Schrödinger equation in one dimension (1D) with a fifth-order interaction term and external harmonic confinement, as a model for both (i) a…
Resonance superfluidity in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas
M. Holland, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, M. L. Chiofalo +1
We consider the superfluid phase transition that arises when a Feshbach resonance pairing occurs in a dilute Fermi gas. We apply our theory to consider a specific resonance in pota…
Probing the energy bands of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice
M. L. Chiofalo, S. Succi, M. P. Tosi
We simulate three experimental methods which could be realized in the laboratory to probe the band excitation energies and the momentum distribution of a Bose-Einstein condensate i…
Collective excitations of a periodic Bose condensate in the Wannier representation
M. L. Chiofalo, M. Polini, M. P. Tosi
We study the dispersion relation of the excitations of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a periodic optical potential and its Bloch oscillations in an accelerated frame…
Time-dependent linear response of an inhomogeneous Bose superfluid: Microscopic theory and connection to current-density functional theory
M. L. Chiofalo, A. Minguzzi, M. P. Tosi
The dynamics of a confined fluid of Bose atoms is treated within the linear response regime, with a view to establishing a current-density functional formalism for an inhomogeneous…