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Technical Proposal for the Atom Interferometer CERN Experiment (AICE) Facility
Gianluigi Arduini, Nadja Augst, Mark G. Bason +79
We present the technical proposal for the Atom Interferometer CERN Experiment (AICE), a m vertical atom interferometer to be installed against the wall of the PX…
Letter of Intent: AICE -- 100m Atom Interferometer Experiment at CERN
Charles Baynham, Andrea Bertoldi, Diego Blas +31
We propose an O(100)m Atom Interferometer (AI) experiment -- AICE -- to be installed against a wall of the PX46 access shaft to the LHC. This experiment would probe unexplored rang…
AION-10: Technical Design Report for a 10m Atom Interferometer in Oxford
K. Bongs, A. Brzakalik, U. Chauhan +89
This Technical Design Report presents AION-10, a 10-meter atom interferometer to be located at Oxford University using ultracold strontium atoms to make precision measurements of f…
Integration of a high-fidelity model of quantum sensors with a map-matching filter for quantum-enhanced navigation
Samuel Lellouch, Michael Holynski
Harnessing the potential of quantum sensors to assist in navigation requires enabling their operation in complex, dynamic environments and integrating them within existing navigati…
A prototype differential atom interferometer for fundamental physics
C. F. A. Baynham, R. Hobson, O. Buchmueller +89
Gravitational waves and ultralight dark matter are among the most compelling frontiers in fundamental physics, motivating proposals for Very Long-Baseline Atom Interferometers (VLB…
Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: Summary of the Second Workshop
Adam Abdalla, Mahiro Abe, Sven Abend +307
This summary of the second Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry (TVLBAI) Workshop provides a comprehensive overview of our meeting held in London in April 2024, build…
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…
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…
Magneto-optical trapping in a near-surface borehole
Jamie Vovrosh, Katie Wilkinson, Sam Hedges +13
Borehole gravity sensing can be used in a number of applications to measure features around a well including rock-type change mapping and determination of reservoir porosity. Quant…
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…
Bespoke magnetic field design for a magnetically shielded cold atom interferometer
P. J. Hobson, J. Vovrosh, B. Stray +10
Quantum sensors based on cold atoms are being developed which produce measurements of unprecedented accuracy. Due to shifts in atomic energy levels, quantum sensors often have stri…
Doppler Compensated Cavity For Atom Interferometry
Rustin Nourshargh, Sam Hedges, Mehdi Langlois +2
We propose and demonstrate a scheme to enable Doppler compensation within optical cavities for atom interferometry at significantly increased mode diameters. This has the potential…
Circulating pulse cavity enhancement as a method for extreme momentum transfer atom interferometry
R. Nourshargh, S. Lellouch, S. Hedges +3
Large scale atom interferometers promise unrivaled strain sensitivity to midband (0.1 - 10 Hz) gravitational waves, and will probe a new parameter space in the search for ultra-lig…
Optical frequency generation using fiber Bragg grating filters for applications in portable quantum sensing
C. D. Macrae, K. Bongs, M. Holynski
A method for the agile generation of the optical frequencies required for laser cooling and atom interferometry of rubidium is demonstrated. It relies on fiber Bragg grating techno…
A Dielectric Metasurface Optical Chip for the Generation of Cold Atoms
Lingxiao Zhu, Xuan Liu, Basudeb Sain +12
Compact and robust cold atom sources are increasingly important for quantum research, especially for transferring cutting-edge quantum science into practical applications. In this…
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…
Performance of an optical single-sideband laser system for atom interferometry
Clemens Rammeloo, Lingxiao Zhu, Yu-Hung Lien +2
This paper reports on a detailed performance characterization of a recently developed optical single-sideband (OSSB) laser system based on an IQ modulator and second-harmonic gener…
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…
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…
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…
Application of optical single-sideband laser in Raman atom interferometry
Lingxiao Zhu, Yu-Hung Lien, Andrew Hinton +4
A frequency doubled I/Q modulator based optical single-sideband (OSSB) laser system is demonstrated for atomic physics research, specifically for atom interferometry where the pres…
Additive manufacturing of magnetic shielding and ultra-high vacuum flange for cold atom sensors
Jamie Vovrosh, Georgios Voulazeris, Plamen Petrov +8
Recent advances in the understanding and control of quantum technologies, such as those based on cold atoms, have resulted in devices with extraordinary metrological sensitivities.…
Collective strong coupling of cold potassium atoms in a ring cavity
Robert Culver, Andreas Lampis, Balázs Megyeri +5
We present experiments on ensemble cavity quantum electrodynamics with cold potassium atoms in a high-finesse ring cavity. Potassium-39 atoms are cooled in a two-dimensional magnet…