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most citedInterferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates in Microgravity

415 citations · 747 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.optics2025

Release and Recapture of Silica Nanoparticles from an Optical Trap in Weightlessness

Govindarajan Prakash, Sven Herrmann, Ralf B. Bergmann +1

Optically trapped Silica nanoparticles are a promising tool for precise sensing of gravitational or inertial forces and fundamental physics, including tests of quantum mechanics at…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Gravitomagnetic Clock Effect: Using GALILEO to explore General Relativity

Jan Scheumann, Dennis Philipp, Sven Herrmann +5

All experiments to date are in remarkable agreement with the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity, General Relativity. Besides the classical tests, involving light deflectio…

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★ 2 cited

MAQRO -- BPS 2023 Research Campaign Whitepaper

Rainer Kaltenbaek, Markus Arndt, Markus Aspelmeyer +43

The objective of the proposed MAQRO mission is to harness space for achieving long free-fall times, extreme vacuum, nano-gravity, and cryogenic temperatures to test the foundations…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 89 cited

Concept study and preliminary design of a cold atom interferometer for space gravity gradiometry

A. Trimeche, B. Battelier, D. Becker +14

We study a space-based gravity gradiometer based on cold atom interferometry and its potential for the Earth's gravitational field mapping. The instrument architecture has been pro…

quant-ph2013★ 180 cited

STE-QUEST - Test of the Universality of Free Fall Using Cold Atom Interferometry

D. Aguilera, H. Ahlers, B. Battelier +63

The theory of general relativity describes macroscopic phenomena driven by the influence of gravity while quantum mechanics brilliantly accounts for microscopic effects. Despite th…