Interferometry with synthetic gauge fields

Journal Article · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.031602· OSTI ID:21537361

Anderson, Brandon M; Taylor, Jacob M; Galitski, Victor M ^[1]

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1. Condensed Matter Theory Center and Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111 (United States)

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{approx}10{sup -7}(m/s{sup 2}/{radical}(Hz)).

• OSTI ID: 21537361
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.031602; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ACCELERATION
ATOMS
BOSONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
INTERFEROMETRY
PROPOSALS
SENSITIVITY
SPIN
TIME DEPENDENCE
TRAPPING
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
PARTICLE PROPERTIES