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Measuring gravitational acceleration by cold atom multimode interference with three Kapitza–Dirac pulses

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We theoretically investigate atom interferometric schemes based on three Kapitza–Dirac pulses in a one-dimensional harmonic trap. Kapitza–Dirac pulses as beam splitters create several spatially addressable modes with different momentum. The one-dimensional harmonic potential well acts as a mirror in an optical interferometer, which causes different modes to interfere and numerous high-contrast fringes appear in each mode at the time of measurement. The sensitivity of this atom interferometer in measuring gravitational acceleration can reach \(\varDelta g/g\approx 10^{-10}\), which is further improved with increasing the number of modes.

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This work was supported by Scientific and Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi (Grant No. 2021L408, Grant No. 2021L405).

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  1. Department of physics, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong, 030619, China

    T.-C. He, Y.-Q. Ma & J. Li

  2. Institute of Computational and Applied Physics, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong, 030619, China

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T-CH: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft. Y-QM: Supervision, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review. JL: Investigation, Project administration, Data curation.

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He, TC., Ma, YQ. & Li, J. Measuring gravitational acceleration by cold atom multimode interference with three Kapitza–Dirac pulses. Eur. Phys. J. D 76, 3 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00335-w

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