Specular mirror interferometer

authored by: Fabio Di Pumpo, Alexander Friedrich, Enno Giese, Albert Roura, Hartmut Lemmel, Daniel M. Greenberger, Ernst M. Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich
Abstract: We propose an atom interferometer with a nonvanishing proper time difference by combining two optical Bragg gratings serving as the two beam splitters at the entrance and the exit of the interferometer, with two strongly detuned evanescent fields providing the two mirrors in the middle. With the help of an operator approach we determine the phase shift between the two arms and compare and contrast it with the familiar Mach–Zehnder interferometer as introduced by Kasevich and Chu which shows no proper time difference.
Organisation(s): Institute of Quantum Optics
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)
External Organisation(s): Ulm University
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
TU Wien (TUW)
City University of New York
Texas A and M University
Type: Contribution to book/anthology
Pages: 173-229
No. of pages: 57
Publication date: 2020
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.po.2019.11.006 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

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title = "Specular mirror interferometer",
abstract = "We propose an atom interferometer with a nonvanishing proper time difference by combining two optical Bragg gratings serving as the two beam splitters at the entrance and the exit of the interferometer, with two strongly detuned evanescent fields providing the two mirrors in the middle. With the help of an operator approach we determine the phase shift between the two arms and compare and contrast it with the familiar Mach–Zehnder interferometer as introduced by Kasevich and Chu which shows no proper time difference.",
keywords = "Atom interferometry, Beam splitters, Proper time, Specular mirror, Time dilation",
author = "{Di Pumpo}, Fabio and Alexander Friedrich and Enno Giese and Albert Roura and Hartmut Lemmel and Greenberger, {Daniel M.} and Rasel, {Ernst M.} and Schleich, {Wolfgang P.}",
note = "Funding information: We thank H. Abele, S. Abend, Ch. J. Bord{\'e}, ?. Brukner, C. Feiler, D. Heim, M. Kasevich, S. Kleinert, S. Loriani, D. Petrascheck, I. Pikovski, H. Rauch, S. Reynaud, D. Schlippert, C. Ufrecht, S. A. Werner, P. Wolf, W. Zeller, M. Zimmermann, and M. Zych for many fruitful discussions. We are also grateful to H. M{\"u}ller for bringing the work of Bord{\'e}, Weitz, and H{\"a}nsch (1993) to our attention. The presented work is supported by CRC 1227 DQ-mat, CRC 1128 geo-Q, the QUEST-LFS, 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 Nos. DLR 50WM1552-1557 (including QUANTUS IV), 50WM1641 and 50WM1956 (QUANTUS V). The work of IQ ST is financially supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-W{\"u}rttemberg. W.P.S. thanks Texas A&M University for a Faculty Fellowship at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, and Texas A&M AgriLife for the support of this work. D.M.G. is grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for a Wiedereinladung which made the start of this work possible, and to the Templeton Foundation for the grant #21531, which allowed its completion.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1016/bs.po.2019.11.006",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-12-818884-2",
series = "Progress in Optics",
publisher = "Elsevier Science B.V.",
pages = "173--229",
editor = "Visser, {Taco D.}",
booktitle = "A Tribute to Emil Wolf",
address = "Netherlands",
}