Miniature Atomic vapor-Cells Quantum devices for SensIng and Metrology AppLications

Project Information

macQsimal

Grant agreement ID: 820393

DOI

10.3030/820393

Project closed

EC signature date 4 September 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 10 209 943,75

EU contribution

€ 10 209 943,75

Coordinated by

CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT
Switzerland

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (17)

Low-density OPM demonstrator and benchmarking report

Characterization and benchmarking results for the lowdensity OPM Demonstrator

Quantum-enhanced OPM benchmarking report

Benchmarking results for the quantum enhanced OPM Approach

Quantification of bandwidth and sensitivity of NO sensor

Assessment of the NO sensor bandwidth and sensitivity results

Micro-optical OPM physics package and encapsulation report

Description for the physics package and the corresponding encapsulation approaches for the microoptical cavityQED OPM Setup

Quantum-enhanced OPM methods report

Description of the methods identified for the quantumenhanced OPM

High-density OPM demonstrator and benchmarking report

Characterization and benchmarking results for the highdensity OPM Demonstrator

Cavity-enhanced GHz field sensor setup

Description of the cavityenhanced GHz field sensor Setup

Summary of performance and quantum enhancement

Assessment of the GHzTHz imagers Performances

Quantum-enhancement strategies summary

Description of the quantumenhancement strategies for GHzTHz imagers

Test of NO detection with real exhaled gases

Description of the NO detection test results obtained with real exhaled gases

Test and validation results for GHz imaging

Description of the test and validation results for GHz Imaging

SERF gyroscope feasibility

Feasibility study of a SERF based gyroscope System

Quantification of bandwidth and sensitivity of Rb sensor for different sample volumes

Analysis of the Rb sensor bandwidth and sensitivity results for different sample volumes

MEMS cells characterization report

Characterization of the vapor cells to be integrated in the MAC System

Fibre-coupled THz imager setup

Description of the fibrecoupled THz imager Setup

Tests of sensitivity of imager for THz sources

Description of the sensitivity test results of the THz sources imager

Quantum-enhanced gyroscope study report

Quantumenhanced gyroscope study report

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

MACQSIMAL website

Description of the macQsimal website structure.

Final scientific symposium

Evaluation and description of the final scientific Symposium

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (35)

Terahertz electrometry via infrared spectoscopy of atomic vapor

Author(s): Shuying Chen, Dominic J. Reed, Andrew R. MacKellar, Lucy A. Downes, Nourah F. A. Almuhawish, Matthew J. Jamieson, Charles S. Adams, Kevin Weatherill
Published in: Optica, Issue 9/5, 2022, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.456761

Laser-written vapor cells for chip-scale atomic sensing and spectroscopy

Author(s): Vito G. Lucivero, Andrea Zanoni, Giacomo Corrielli, Roberto Osellame, and Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 30/15, 2022, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.469296

Entanglement-enhanced magnetic induction tomography

Author(s): W. Zheng, H. Wang, R. Schmieg, A. Oesterle and E. S. Polzik.
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 130, 203602, 2023, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.203602

Interferometric measurement of interhyperfine scattering lengths in 87Rb

Author(s): Pau Gomez, Chiara Mazzinghi, Ferran Martin, Simon Coop, Silvana Palacios, and Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/3, 2019, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.032704

Cavity-enhanced polarization rotation measurements for low-disturbance probing of atoms

Author(s): Chiara Mazzinghi, Daniel Benedicto Orenes, Pau Gomez, Vito G. Lucivero, Enes Aybar, Stuti Gugnani, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 29/25, 2021, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.438675

Nuclear Spin Squeezing in Helium-3 by Continuous Quantum Nondemolition Measurement

Author(s): Alan Serafin, Matteo Fadel, Phillip Treutlein, Alice Sinatra
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 127/1, 2021, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.013601

Device-independent randomness expansion with entangled photons

Author(s): Lynden K. Shalm, Yanbao Zhang, Joshua C. Bienfang, Collin Schlager, Martin J. Stevens, Michael D. Mazurek, Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan W. Mitchell, Mohammad A. Alhejji, Honghao Fu, Joel Ornstein, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Emanuel Knill
Published in: Nature Physics, Issue 17/1, 2021, Page(s) 452–456, ISSN 1745-2481
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01153-4

Squeezed-Light Enhancement and Backaction Evasion in a High Sensitivity Optically Pumped Magnetometer

Author(s): C. Troullinou, R. Jiménez-Martínez, J. Kong, V. G. Lucivero, M. W. Mitchell
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 127/19, 2022, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.193601

Rapid readout of terahertz orbital angular momentum beams using atom-based imaging

Author(s): Lucy A. Downes; Daniel J. Whiting; C. Stuart Adams; Kevin J. Weatherill
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue Vol.47(22), 2022, Page(s) 6001-6004, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.476945

Magnetic field modeling with surface currents. Part II. Implementation and usage of bfieldtools

Author(s): Rasmus Zetter, Antti J. Mäkinen, Joonas Iivanainen, Koos C. J. Zevenhoven, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Lauri Parkkonen
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 128/6, 2020, Page(s) 063905, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0016087

Single-domain Bose condensate magnetometer achieves energy resolution per bandwidth below ℏ

Author(s): Silvana Palacios Alvarez, Pau Gomez, Simon Coop, Roberto Zamora-Zamora, Chiara Mazzinghi, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: PNAS, Issue 119/6, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115339119

A general method for computing thermal magnetic noise arising from thin conducting objects

Author(s): Joonas Iivanainen, Antti J. Mäkinen, Rasmus Zetter, Koos C. J. Zevenhoven, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Lauri Parkkonen
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 130/4, 2021, ISSN 1089-7550
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
DOI: 10.1063/5.0050371

Experimental Low-Latency Device-Independent Quantum Randomness

Author(s): Yanbao Zhang, Lynden K. Shalm, Joshua C. Bienfang, Martin J. Stevens, Michael D. Mazurek, Sae Woo Nam, Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan W. Mitchell, Honghao Fu, Carl A. Miller, Alan Mink, and Emanuel Knill
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 124/1, 2020, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.010505

Effects of spin-exchange collisions on the fluctuation spectra of hot alkali-metal vapors

Author(s): Author(s) K. Mouloudakis, G. Vasilakis, V. G. Lucivero, J. Kong, I. K. Kominis, and M. W. Mitchell
Published in: Journal Phys. Rev. A, Issue 106, 2022, Page(s) 023112, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: Publisher American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.106.023112

Bose-Einstein Condensate Comagnetometer

Author(s): Pau Gomez, Ferran Martin, Chiara Mazzinghi, Daniel Benedicto Orenes, Silvana Palacios, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 124/17, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.170401

Narrowband photon pairs with independent frequency tuning for quantum light-matter interactions

Author(s): Vindhiya Prakash, Lorena C. Bianchet, Marc T. Cuairan, Pau Gomez, Natalia Bruno, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 27/26, 2019, Page(s) 38463, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.382474

Magnetic-field modeling with surface currents. Part I. Physical and computational principles of bfieldtools

Author(s): Antti J. Mäkinen, Rasmus Zetter, Joonas Iivanainen, Koos C. J. Zevenhoven, Lauri Parkkonen, Risto J. Ilmoniemi
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 128/6, 2020, Page(s) 063906, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0016090

µPOP Clock: A Microcell Atomic Clock Based on a Double-Resonance Ramsey Scheme

Author(s): E. Batori, C. Affolderbach, M. Pellaton, F. Gruet, M. Violetti, Y. Su, A. K. Skrivervik, G. Mileti
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 18, 2022, Page(s) 224401, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.18.054039

Étude théorique de la compression de spin nucléaire par mesure quantique non destructive en continu

Author(s): Alan Serafin, Yvan Castin, Matteo Fadel, Philipp Treutlein, Alice Sinatra
Published in: Comptes Rendus. Physique, Issue 22/1, 2021, Page(s) 1-35, ISSN 1878-1535
Publisher: Académie des sciences
DOI: 10.5802/crphys.71

Scaling Laws for the Sensitivity Enhancement of Non-Gaussian Spin States

Author(s): Youcef Baamara, Alice Sinatra, Manuel Gessner
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 127/16, 2021, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.160501

Maltese cross coupling to individual cold atoms in free space

Author(s): Natalia Bruno, Lorena C. Bianchet, Vindhiya Prakash, Nan Li, Natália Alves, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 27/21, 2019, Page(s) 31042, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.031042

Full-Field Terahertz Imaging at Kilohertz Frame Rates Using Atomic Vapor

Author(s): Lucy A. Downes, Andrew R. MacKellar, Daniel J. Whiting, Cyril Bourgenot, Charles S. Adams, Kevin J. Weatherill
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 10/1, 2020, Page(s) 011027, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.10.011027

Detection of low-conductivity objects using eddy current measurements with an optical magnetometer

Author(s): Kasper Jensen, Michael Zugenmaier, Jens Arnbak, Hans Stærkind, Mikhail V. Balabas, Eugene S. Polzik
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 1/3, 2019, Page(s) 033087, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.1.033087

Long-Term Stability Analysis Toward <10 −14 Level for a Highly Compact POP Rb Cell Atomic Clock

Author(s): Nil Almat, Mohammadreza Gharavipour, William Moreno, Florian Gruet, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Issue 67/1, 2020, Page(s) 207-216, ISSN 0885-3010
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2019.2940903

An optogalvanic gas sensor based on Rydberg excitations

Author(s): J Schmidt, Y Münzenmaier, P Kaspar, P Schalberger, H Baur, R Löw, N Fruehauf, T Pfau, H Kübler
Published in: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Issue 53/9, 2020, Page(s) 094001, ISSN 0953-4075
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ab728e

Scale-invariant spin dynamics and the quantum limits of field sensing

Author(s): Morgan W Mitchell
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 22/5, 2020, Page(s) 053041, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab81b8

Measurement-induced, spatially-extended entanglement in a hot, strongly-interacting atomic system

Author(s): Jia Kong, Ricardo Jiménez-Martínez, Charikleia Troullinou, Vito Giovanni Lucivero, Géza Tóth, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 2415, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15899-1

Colloquium : Quantum limits to the energy resolution of magnetic field sensors

Author(s): Morgan W. Mitchell, Silvana Palacios Alvarez
Published in: Reviews of Modern Physics, Issue 92/2, 2020, Page(s) 021001, ISSN 0034-6861
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/revmodphys.92.021001

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Author(s): Hans Stærkind; Kasper Jensen; Jörg H. Müller; Vincent O. Boer; Esben T. Petersen; Eugene S. Polzik
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.13.021036

Unconventional quantum correlations of light emitted by a single atom in free space

Author(s): D. Goncalves, M. W. Mitchell, D. E. Chang
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 104/1, 2021, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.013724

GNSS-grade space atomic frequency standards: Current status and ongoing developments

Author(s): Etienne Batori, Nil Almat, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti
Published in: Advances in Space Research, Issue 68/12, 2021, ISSN 0273-1177
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2020.09.012

Quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation and compressed sensing of a field

Author(s): Youcef Baamara, Manuel Gessner, Alice Sinatra
Published in: SciPost Physics, Issue 14, 050, 2023, ISSN 2542-4653
Publisher: SciPost Foundation
DOI: 10.21468/scipostphys.14.3.050

Improving Short-Term Stability in Optical Lattice Clocks by Quantum Nondemolition Measurement

Author(s): Daniel Benedicto Orenes, Robert J. Sewell, Jérôme Lodewyck, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 128/15, 2022, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.153201

SU(2)-in-SU(1,1) Nested Interferometer for High Sensitivity, Loss-Tolerant Quantum Metrology

Author(s): Wei Du, Jia Kong, Guzhi Bao, Peiyu Yang, Jun Jia, Sheng Ming, Chun-Hua Yuan, J. F. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, Morgan W. Mitchell, and Weiping Zhang
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 128/3, 2022, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.033601

Miniature biplanar coils for alkali-metal-vapor magnetometry

Author(s): Michael C.D. Tayler, Kostas Mouloudakis, Rasmus Zetter, Dominic Hunter, Vito G. Lucivero, Sven Bodenstedt, Lauri Parkkonen, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 18/1, 2022, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS Physics
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.18.014036

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Quantum limits to the energy resolution of magnetic field sensors

Author(s): Mitchell, Morgan W.; Alvarez, Silvana Palacios
Published in: arXiv.org [quant-ph], Issue 13, 2020, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.00618

Cavity-enhanced polarization rotation measurements for low-disturbance probing of atoms

Author(s): Chiara Mazzinghi; Daniel Benedicto Orenes; Pau Gomez; Vito Giovanni Lucivero; Enes Aybar; Stuti Gugnani; Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: arXiv.org [atom-ph], Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.13302

Conference proceedings (2)

Ramsey Spectroscopy in a Micro-Fabricated Rb Vapor Cell for Miniature Atomic Clocks

Author(s): E. Batori, C. Affolderbach, M. Pellaton, F. Gruet, G. Mileti, Y. Su, M. Violetti, A. K. Skrivervik
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum and IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, EFTF/IFCS 2021, Issue 2021, 2021, Page(s) 7063
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc
DOI: 10.1109/eftf/ifcs52194.2021.9604252

Experimental Determination of Relaxation Rates in a Ramsey-mode Rubidium Cell Atomic Clock

Author(s): E. Batori, C. Affolderbach, F. Gruet, M. Pellaton, G. Mileti, Y. Su, M. Violetti, A. K. Skrivervik
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum and IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium,, 2022
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc
DOI: 10.1109/eftf/ifcs54560.2022.9850556

Other (5)

Doppler-free high resolution continuous wave optical UV-spectroscopy on the A2Σ+←X2Π3/2 transition in nitric oxide

Author(s): Patrick Kaspar, Fabian Munkes, Philipp Neufeld, Lea Ebel, Yannick Schellander, Robert Löw, Tilman Pfau, Harald Kübler
Published in: arXiv.org (physics.atom-ph), 2022
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.15243

Precise, super-resolving intensity measurement by quantum jump spectroscopy of a single neutral atom

Author(s): Lorena C. Bianchet, Natalia Alves, Laura Zarraoa, Tomas Lamich, Vindhiya Prakash, Morgan W. Mitchell
Published in: arXiv.org (physics.atom-ph), 2022
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.13899

Nuclear spin squeezing by continuous quantum non-demolition measurement: a theoretical study

Author(s): Alan Serafin, Yvan Castin, Matteo Fadel, Philipp Treutlein, Alice Sinatra
Published in: arXiv.org [physics], 2020
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.14686

Effects of Spin-Exchange Collisions on the Fluctuation Spectra of Hot Alkali Vapors

Author(s): K. Mouloudakis, G. Vasilakis, V. G. Lucivero, J. Kong, I. K. Kominis, M. W. Mitchell
Published in: arXiv.org (physics.atom-ph), 2022
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.08748

Quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation and compressed sensing of a field

Author(s): Youcef Baamara, Manuel Gessner, Alice Sinatra
Published in: arXiv.org (cond-mat.quant-gas), 2022
Publisher: Cornell Tech
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.00640

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Metrological and stability studies in high-performance rubidium vapor-cell atomic clocks

Author(s): Nil Almat
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Université de Neuchâtel
DOI: 10.35662/unine-thesis-2836