Interferometry with Synthetic Gauge Fields

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Abstract

We propose a compact atom interferometry scheme for measuring weak, time-dependent accelerations. Our proposal uses an ensemble of dilute trapped bosons with two internal states that couple to a synthetic gauge field with opposite charges. The trapped gauge field couples spin to momentum to allow time dependent accelerations to be continuously imparted on the internal states. We generalize this system to reduce noise and estimate the sensitivity of such a system to be $S\sim 10^{-7} \frac{\textrm{m} / \textrm{s}^2}{\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}}$.

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Authors

  • Brandon Anderson

    University of Maryland and Joint Quantum Institute

  • Jacob Taylor

    University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Physics; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, University of Maryland, University of Maryland and Joint Quantum Institute, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899

  • Brandon Anderson

    University of Maryland and Joint Quantum Institute