Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms: a tool for a metrological determination of $h/m_{Rb}$

Remy Battesti, Pierre Clade, Saida Guellati-Khelifa +5

We use Bloch oscillations in a horizontal moving standing wave to transfer a large number of photon recoils to atoms with a high efficiency (99.5% per cycle). By measuring the phot…