{"id":148821,"date":"2022-10-24T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/toward-flawless-atom-optics"},"modified":"2022-10-24T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T03:24:14","slug":"toward-flawless-atom-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/toward-flawless-atom-optics","title":{"rendered":"Toward Flawless Atom Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toward-flawless-atom-optics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers\u2014which could boost these devices\u2019 ability to probe new physics.<\/p>\n<p>Since Michelson and Morley\u2019s famous experiment to detect the \u201cluminiferous aether,\u201d optical interferometry has offered valuable tools for studying fundamental physics. Nowadays, cutting-edge applications of the technique include its use as a high-precision ruler for detecting gravitational waves (see Focus: The Moon as a Gravitational-Wave Detector) and as a platform for quantum computing (see Viewpoint: Quantum Leap for Quantum Primacy). But as methods for cooling and controlling atoms have advanced, a new kind of interferometer has become available, in which light waves are replaced by matter waves [1]. Such devices can measure inertial forces with a sensitivity even greater than that of optical interferometers [2] and could reveal new physics beyond the standard model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers\u2014which could boost these devices\u2019 ability to probe new physics. Since Michelson and Morley\u2019s famous experiment to detect the \u201cluminiferous aether,\u201d optical interferometry has offered valuable tools for studying fundamental physics. Nowadays, cutting-edge applications of the technique include its use as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}