Bulletin of the American Physical Society
52nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume 66, Number 6
Monday–Friday, May 31–June 4 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session H09: Matter-Wave Optics and Interferometry
8:00 AM–10:00 AM,
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Chair: Edward Moan, UVA
Abstract: H09.00006 : Quantum state engineering of quantum gases in orbit*
9:00 AM–9:12 AM
Live
Presenter:
Annie Pichery
(Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany)
Authors:
Annie Pichery
(Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany)
Matthias Meister
(Institute of Quantum Technologies, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm, Germany)
Naceur Gaaloul
(Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany)
Nicholas P Bigelow
(The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA)
Collaboration:
CUAS
Ensembles of cold atoms behave as matter-waves and are routinely used for quantum sensing experiments. Space provides an environment where atoms can float for extended times, but the free expansion and the inherent atomic density drop make the signal detection difficult. By analogy with light, it is possible to collimate the clouds with atomic lenses, using the delta-kick collimation technique. In this contribution, we present a protocol for controlling the expansion of condensed Rb clouds applied to experiments in the NASA Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) on board of the International Space Station that led to expansion energies at the tens of picokelvin level. This is made possible thanks to an accurate quantum state preparation of the atomic source that makes it compatible with the most stringent requirements of precision atom interferometry experiments.
*We acknowledge financial support from NASA/JPL RSA No. 1616833 and the German Space Agency (DLR) with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) due to an enactment of the German Bundestag under Grant No. 50WP1705 and No. 50WM1861/2.
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