Quantum sensors - from the lab to the field

Project Information

Q-Sense

Grant agreement ID: 691156

DOI 10.3030/691156

Project closed

EC signature date 3 December 2015

Start date 1 January 2016

End date 31 December 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 945 000,00

EU contribution € 945 000,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Documents, reports (14)

Kickoff meeting

Project Kick off meeting

Feasibility report for cold atom in space and territorial opportunities and road-mapping
Report on performance of transportable compact Sr clock
Annual project progress report and annual management meeting
Progress Report M36
Report on optimisation of magnetic systems for space missions
Test results on a space prototype reference cavity with 5E-16 instability
Report documenting fundamental modelling of cold atom interferometers
Test results on integration of a high performance transportable clock laser for Sr & Yb

Report on the test results on and integration of a high-performance transportable clock laser for Sr &Yb

Report on test series performance, and assessing future use of atom interferometer in civil engineering/demining
Report on Data Management
Test results of a frequency stabilization system
Project website online
Progress Report M12

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Atomic source selection in space-borne gravitational wave detection

Author(s): S Loriani, D Schlippert, C Schubert, S Abend, H Ahlers, W Ertmer, J Rudolph, J M Hogan, M A Kasevich, E M Rasel, N Gaaloul
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/6, 2019, Page(s) 063030, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab22d0

Optimal control of the transport of Bose-Einstein condensates with atom chips

Author(s): S. Amri, R. Corgier, D. Sugny, E. M. Rasel, N. Gaaloul, E. Charron
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41784-z

Absolute frequency measurement of the ¹S₀ – ³P₀ transition of ¹⁷¹Yb with a link to International Atomic Time

Author(s): Marco Pizzocaro, Filippo Bregolin, Piero Barbieri, Benjamin Rauf, Filippo Levi, Davide Calonico
Published in: Metrologia, 2019, ISSN 0026-1394
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1681-7575/ab50e8

Demonstration of 4.8 × 10−17 stability at 1 s for two independent optical clocks

Author(s): E. Oelker, R. B. Hutson, C. J. Kennedy, L. Sonderhouse, T. Bothwell, A. Goban, D. Kedar, C. Sanner, J. M. Robinson, G. E. Marti, D. G. Matei, T. Legero, M. Giunta, R. Holzwarth, F. Riehle, U. Sterr, J. Ye
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 13/10, 2019, Page(s) 714-719, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0493-4

Crystalline optical cavity at 4  K with thermal-noise-limited instability and ultralow drift

Author(s): John M. Robinson, Eric Oelker, William R. Milner, Wei Zhang, Thomas Legero, Dan G. Matei, Fritz Riehle, Uwe Sterr, Jun Ye
Published in: Optica, Issue 6/2, 2019, Page(s) 240, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/optica.6.000240

Feasibility of near-unstable cavities for future gravitational wave detectors

Author(s): Haoyu Wang, Miguel Dovale-Álvarez, Christopher Collins, Daniel David Brown, Mengyao Wang, Conor M. Mow-Lowry, Sen Han, Andreas Freise
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 97/2, 2018, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.97.022001

Gravitational Redshift in Quantum-Clock Interferometry

Author(s): Albert Roura
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 10/2, 2020, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.10.021014

Phase Shift in an Atom Interferometer due to Spacetime Curvature across its Wave Function

Author(s): Peter Asenbaum, Chris Overstreet, Tim Kovachy, Daniel D. Brown, Jason M. Hogan, Mark A. Kasevich
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 118/18, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.183602

Fast manipulation of Bose–Einstein condensates with an atom chip

Author(s): Corgier, R; Amri, S.; Herr, W.; Ahlers, H.; Rudolph, J.; Guéry-Odelin, David; Rasel, Ernst Maria; Charron, E.; Gaaloul, N.
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 2, 2018, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.15488/3795

1.5 μ m Lasers with Sub-10 mHz Linewidth

Author(s): D. G. Matei, T. Legero, S. Häfner, C. Grebing, R. Weyrich, W. Zhang, L. Sonderhouse, J. M. Robinson, J. Ye, F. Riehle, U. Sterr
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 118/26, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.263202

Fundamental limitations of cavity-assisted atom interferometry

Author(s): M. Dovale-Álvarez, D. D. Brown, A. W. Jones, C. M. Mow-Lowry, H. Miao, A. Freise
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 96/5, 2017, Page(s) 053820, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053820

Other (1)

Dynamic decoupling of laser phase noise in compound atomic clocks

Author(s): Dörscher, Sören; Al-Masoudi, Ali; Bober, Marcin; Schwarz, Roman; Hobson, Richard; Sterr, Uwe; Lisdat, Christian
Published in: arXiv.org; Ithaca, 2019
Publisher: Ithaca