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How to estimate the differential acceleration in a two-species atom interferometer to test the equivalence principle
Gael Varoquaux, Robert A. Nyman, Rémi Geiger +3
We propose a scheme for testing the weak equivalence principle (Universality of Free Fall) using an atom-interferometric measurement of the local differential acceleration between…
All-optical runaway evaporation to Bose-Einstein condensation
Jean-Francois Clément, Jean-Philippe Brantut, Martin Robert De Saint Vincent +4
We demonstrate runaway evaporative cooling directly with a tightly confining optical dipole trap and achieve fast production of condensates of 1.5x10^5 87Rb atoms. Our scheme is ch…
Light-shift tomography in an optical-dipole trap for neutral atoms
Jean-Philippe Brantut, Jean-François Clément, Martin Robert De Saint Vincent +5
We report on light-shift tomography of a cloud of 87 Rb atoms in a far-detuned optical-dipole trap at 1565 nm. Our method is based on standard absorption imaging, but takes advanta…
I.C.E.: An Ultra-Cold Atom Source for Long-Baseline Interferometric Inertial Sensors in Reduced Gravity
Gaël Varoquaux, Nassim Zahzam, Walid Chaibi +11
The accuracy and precision of current atom-interferometric inertialsensors rival state-of-the-art conventional devices using artifact-based test masses . Atomic sensors are well su…