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A Dual-Species Atom Interferometer Payload for Operation on Sounding Rockets
Michael Elsen, Baptist Piest, Fabian Adam +36
We report on the design and the construction of a sounding rocket payload capable of performing atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates of K and Rb. The ap…
Ultracold atom interferometry in space
Maike D. Lachmann, Holger Ahlers, Dennis Becker +21
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in free fall constitute a promising source for space-borne matter-wave interferometry. Indeed, BECs enjoy a slowly expanding wave function, display…
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…
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…
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…
Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry
Dennis Becker, Maike D. Lachmann, Stephan T. Seidel +32
Space offers virtually unlimited free-fall in gravity. Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) enables ineffable low kinetic energies corresponding to pico- or even femtokelvins. The comb…