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20142026
most citedMobile quantum gravity sensor with unprecedented stability

243 citations · 596 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.geo-ph2026

Estimating subsurface water mass changes with ground-based gravimetry

Isabelle Schmidt, Jackson Ang'ong'a, Peter Bauer-Gottwein +10

Gravitational force is proportional to the mass of an attracting body; therefore, changes in subsurface mass can be detected using gravimetry. In the near subsurface, mass variatio…

physics.atom-ph2025

Comparison of laser system designs for quantum technologies: BECCAL flight system vs. BECCAL ground test bed

Victoria A. Henderson, Jean-Pierre Marburger, André Wenzlawski +31

We present the design of laser systems for the Bose-Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Laboratory (BECCAL) payload, enabling numerous quantum technological experiments onboard the I…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 8 cited

Additively manufactured ceramics for compact quantum technologies

Marc Christ, Conrad Zimmermann, Sascha Neinert +3

Quantum technologies are advancing from fundamental research in specialized laboratories to practical applications in the field, driving the demand for robust, scalable, and reprod…

hep-ex2023★ 9 cited

Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Workshop Summary

Sven Abend, Baptiste Allard, Iván Alonso +250

This document presents a summary of the 2023 Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop hosted by CERN. The workshop brought together experts from around the world…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Light-Pulse Atom Interferometric Test of Continuous Spontaneous Localization

Sascha Vowe, Sandro Donadi, Vladimir Schkolnik +3

We investigate the effect of the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) model on light-pulse atom interferometry. Using a path-integral approach with an additional stochastic po…

physics.ins-det2022★ 34 cited

Linien: A versatile, user-friendly, open-source FPGA-based tool for frequency stabilization and spectroscopy parameter optimization

Benjamin Wiegand, Bastian Leykauf, Robert Jördens +1

We present a user-friendly and versatile tool for laser frequency stabilization. Its main focus is spectroscopy locking, but the software is suitable for lock-in techniques in gene…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 13 cited

Technologies for the ELGAR large scale atom interferometer array

B. Canuel, S. Abend, P. Amaro-Seoane +56

We proposed the European Laboratory for Gravitation and Atom-interferometric Research (ELGAR), an array of atom gradiometers aimed at studying space-time and gravitation with the p…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 124 cited

ELGAR -- a European Laboratory for Gravitation and Atom-interferometric Research

B. Canuel, S. Abend, P. Amaro-Seoane +55

Gravitational Waves (GWs) were observed for the first time in 2015, one century after Einstein predicted their existence. There is now growing interest to extend the detection band…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 4 cited

A single-laser alternating-frequency magneto-optical trap

B. Wiegand, B. Leykauf, K. Döringshoff +3

In this paper, we present a technique for magneto-optical cooling and trapping of neutral atoms using a single laser. The alternating-frequency magneto-optical trap (AF-MOT) uses a…

physics.atm-clus2018★ 26 cited

Observation of vector and tensor light shifts in 87Rb using near-resonant, stimulated Raman spectroscopy

Qing-Qing Hu, Christian Freier, Yuan Sun +5

We present the derivation of the frequency dependent scalar, vector, and tensor dynamical polarizabilities for the two hyperfine levels of the 87Rb atom 5s ground state. Based on t…

physics.app-ph2018★ 37 cited

Mapping the absolute magnetic field and evaluating the quadratic Zeeman effect induced systematic error in an atom interferometer gravimeter

Qing-Qing Hu, Christian Freier, Bastian Leykauf +4

Precisely evaluating the systematic error induced by the quadratic Zeeman effect is important for developing atom interferometer gravimeters aiming at an accuracy in the regime ( )…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 243 cited

Mobile quantum gravity sensor with unprecedented stability

Christian Freier, Matthias Hauth, Vladimir Schkolnik +6

Changes of surface gravity on Earth are of great interest in geodesy, earth sciences and natural resource exploration. They are indicative of Earth system's mass redistributions an…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 95 cited

The effect of wavefront aberrations in atom interferometry

Vladimir Schkolnik, Bastian Leykauf, Matthias Hauth +2

Wavefront aberrations are one of the largest uncertainty factors in present atom interferometers. We present a detailed numerical and experimental analysis of this effect based on…