A marginally stable optical resonator for enhanced atom interferometry

Generation of atom-light entanglement in an optical cavity for quantum enhanced atom interferometry

(2016) Generation of atom-light entanglement in an optical cavity for quantum enhanced atom interferometry. Physical Review A, 93 (2). p. 3607. This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for...

Atom galleries for whispering atoms: binding atoms in stable orbits around an optical resonator.

The external fields of optical whispering gallery modes may be used to confine atoms in stable orbits around a dielectric microsphere. As an example, a toroidal dipole-force trap (atom gallery) for three-level atoms is investigated, and the possibility of achieving an atomic (matter-wave) resonator is discussed. The extremely small electromagnetic mode volumes and high Q's of the whispering gal...

Optical pumping of a lithium atomic beam for atom interferometry

Atom Interferometry in an Optical Cavity

Atom interferometry, in which atomic waves are coherently split and later recombined, has been called the Swiss Army knife of atomic physics because of its numerous applications. Atom interferometers can be used to study gravity, observe quantum effects, and measure fundamental constants. However, the spitting of atomic beams has always been a challenging task. Several beam splitters for atoms ...

Information-recycling beam splitters for quantum enhanced atom interferometry.

We propose a scheme to significantly enhance the sensitivity of atom interferometry performed with Bose-Einstein condensates. When an optical two-photon Raman transition is used to split the condensate into two modes, some information about the number of atoms in one of the modes is contained in one of the optical modes. We introduce a simple model to describe this process, and find that by pro...