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most citedAEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space

365 citations · 834 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.atom-ph2023★ 1 cited

Centralised Design and Production of the Ultra-High Vacuum and Laser-Stabilisation Systems for the AION Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories

B. Stray, O. Ennis, S. Hedges +69

This paper outlines the centralised design and production of the Ultra-High-Vacuum sidearm and Laser-Stabilisation systems for the AION Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories. Commissio…

physics.space-ph2022★ 15 cited

STE-QUEST -- Space Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence principle Space Test: The 2022 medium-class mission concept

Naceur Gaaloul, Holger Ahlers, Leonardo Badurina +45

Space-borne quantum technologies, particularly those based on atom interferometry, are heralding a new era of strategic and robust space exploration. The unique conditions of space…

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…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 343 cited

AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network

L. Badurina, E. Bentine, D. Blas +38

We outline the experimental concept and key scientific capabilities of AION (Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network), a proposed UK-based experimental programme using cold str…

gr-qc2019★ 365 cited

AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space

Yousef Abou El-Neaj, Cristiano Alpigiani, Sana Amairi-Pyka +129

We propose in this White Paper a concept for a space experiment using cold atoms to search for ultra-light dark matter, and to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range bet…

quant-ph2018★ 21 cited

Optical bistability and nonlinear dynamics by saturation of cold Yb atoms in a cavity

Hannes Gothe, Tristan Valenzuela, Matteo Cristiani +1

We observed optical bistability as well as oscillations in the upper bistable branch when cold ytterbium atoms are dispersively coupled to a high finesse optical cavity. Comparable…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 16 cited

Magnetically guided Cesium interferometer for inertial sensing

Lu Qi, Zhaohui Hu, Tristan Valenzuela +5

In this paper we demonstrate a magnetically guided Cesium (Cs) atom interferometer in the Talbot-Lau regime for inertial sensing with two interferometer schemes, Mach-Zenhder and R…

physics.atom-ph2010★ 12 cited

Fast Non-destructive temperature measurement of two-electrons atoms in a magneto-optical trap

Matteo Cristiani, Tristan Valenzuela, Hannes Gothe +1

We extend the technique originally proposed by Honda et al.to measure the temperature of Ytterbium and alkine-earth atoms confined in a Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT). The method is ba…

physics.atom-ph2007★ 18 cited

HCOOH high resolution spectroscopy in the 9.18m region

Franck Bielsa, Khelifa Djerroud, Andrei Goncharov +5

We report on higly accurate absolute frequency measurement against a femtosecond frequency comb of 6 saturated absorption lines of formic acid (HCOOH) with an accuracy of 1 kHz. We…

physics.optics2007★ 40 cited

Narrow-line phase-locked quantum cascade laser in the 9.2 micron range

Franck Bielsa, Albane Douillet, Tristan Valenzuela +2

We report on the operation of a 50 mW continuous wave quantum cascade laser (QCL) in the 9.2 micrometer range, phase locked to a single mode CO2 laser with a tunable frequency offs…