Is it possible to detect gravitational waves with atom interferometers?

2007/02/21 by G. M. Tino, F. Vetrano · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Astronomical interferometer #Astrophysics #Atom (system on chip) #Atom interferometer #Classical mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Gravitation #Gravitational redshift #Gravitational wave #Gravitational-wave observatory #Interferometry #Physics #Quantum mechanics #gr-qc #physics.atom-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/9/001

published as Class.Quant.Grav.24:2167-2178,2007

arxiv created 2007/02/21 · openalex publication_date 2007/04/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We investigate the possibility to use atom interferometers to detect gravitational waves. We discuss the interaction of gravitational waves with an atom interferometer and analyze possible schemes.

Citations

• Atomic clocks and inertial sensors
• A comparison between matter wave and light wave interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves
• Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors

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• Squeezed-light-enhanced atom interferometry below the standard quantum limit
• Quantum-Spacetime Phenomenology
• Spin-Orbit-Coupled Interferometry with Ring-Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates