Controlling a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Space: Towards Space Based Atom Interferometry

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51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume 65, Number 4

Monday–Friday, June 1–5, 2020; Portland, Oregon

Session J06: Atom and Matter-Wave Optics and Interferometers

2:00 PM–4:00 PM, Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Room: E141-142

Chair: Alejandra Collopy, NIST

Abstract: J06.00010 : Controlling a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Space: Towards Space Based Atom Interferometry*

3:48 PM–4:00 PM

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Authors:

Nicholas Bigelow
(University of Rochester)

Naceur Gaaloul
(Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Matthias Meister
(Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, Germany)

Annie Pichery
(Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay, France)

Waldemar Herr
(Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Ernst Rasel
(Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Wolfgang Schleich
(Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, Germany)

Robin Corgier
(Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Patrick Boegel
(Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, Germany)

Robert Thompson
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA)

Jason Williams
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA)

We describe recent experimental work aboard the International Space Station using the NASA facility CAL, the Cold Atom Laboratory. We will describe significant progress on quantum gas manipulation in microgravity using short cuts to adiabaticity (STA) protocols and on delta kick cooling (DKC) in Space. We describe our success in the context of enabling high performance atom interferometry in space.

*This work was supported by NASA German Space Agency (DLR) with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Economic Af- fairs and Energy (BMWi) due to an enactment of the German Bun- destag under Grant No. 50WM1861/2, and by “Niedersächsisches Vorab” through the QUANOMET initiative-project QT3, and finan- cial support from NASA through CUAS RSAs including 1585910

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume 65, Number 4

Monday–Friday, June 1–5, 2020; Portland, Oregon

Session J06: Atom and Matter-Wave Optics and Interferometers

Abstract: J06.00010 : Controlling a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Space: Towards Space Based Atom Interferometry*

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