Movable precision gravimeters based on cold atom interferometry

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/aba9bc

Abstract High precision atom interferometers have shown attractive prospects in laboratory for testing fundamental physics and inertial sensing. Efforts on applying this innovative technology to field applications are also being made intensively. As the manipulation of cold atoms and related matching technologies mature, inertial sensors based on atom interferometry can be adapted to various indoor or mobile platforms. A series of experiments have been conducted and high performance has been achieved. In this paper, we will introduce the principles, the key technologies, and the applications of atom interferometers, and mainly review the recent progress of movable atom gravimeters.

Keywords: atom interferometer absolute gravimeter precision measurement

Received: 09 June 2020
Revised: 09 July 2020
Accepted manuscript online: 28 July 2020

PACS:	37.25.+k	(Atom interferometry techniques)
	06.30.Gv	(Velocity, acceleration, and rotation)
	04.80.-y	(Experimental studies of gravity)
	01.50.Pa	(Laboratory experiments and apparatus)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11625417, 91636219, 11727809, 91736311, and 11922404).

Corresponding Authors: Le-Le Chen, Zhong-Kun Hu
E-mail: kidchern@hust.edu.cn;zkhu@hust.edu.cn

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Jiong-Yang Zhang(张炯阳), Le-Le Chen(陈乐乐), Yuan Cheng(程源), Qin Luo(罗覃), Yu-Biao Shu(舒玉彪), Xiao-Chun Duan(段小春), Min-Kang Zhou(周敏康), Zhong-Kun Hu(胡忠坤) Movable precision gravimeters based on cold atom interferometry 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 093702

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