Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry

Autoren

Dennis Becker
Maike D Lachmann
Stephan T Seidel
Holger Ahlers
Aline N Dinkelaker
Jens Grosse
Ortwin Hellmig
Hauke Muentinga
Vladimir Schkolnik
Thijs Wendrich
Andre Wenzlawski
Benjamin Weps
Robin Corgier
Tobias Franz
Naceur Gaaloul
Waldemar Herr
Daniel Luedtke
Manuel Popp
Sirine Amri
Hannes Duncker
Maik Erbe
Anja Kohfeldt
Andre Kubelka-Lange
Claus Braxmaier
Eric Charron
Wolfgang Ertmer
Markus Krutzik
Claus Laemmerzahl
Achim Peters
Wolfgang P Schleich
Klaus Sengstock
Reinhold Walser
Andreas Wicht
Patrick Windpassinger
Ernst M Rasel

Autoren-URL

https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000447807100054&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL

DOI

10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1

eISSN

1476-4687

Externe Identifier

Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: GX5RE
PubMed Identifier: 30333576

ISSN

0028-0836

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7727

Zeitschrift

NATURE

Paginierung

391 - +

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Titel

Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry

Sub types

Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

562

Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)

Autoren

Dennis Becker
Maike D Lachmann
Stephan T Seidel
Holger Ahlers
Aline N Dinkelaker
Jens Grosse
Ortwin Hellmig
Hauke Müntinga
Vladimir Schkolnik
Thijs Wendrich
André Wenzlawski
Benjamin Weps
Robin Corgier
Tobias Franz
Naceur Gaaloul
Waldemar Herr
Daniel Lüdtke
Manuel Popp
Sirine Amri
Hannes Duncker
Maik Erbe
Anja Kohfeldt
André Kubelka-Lange
Claus Braxmaier
Eric Charron
Wolfgang Ertmer
Markus Krutzik
Claus Lämmerzahl
Achim Peters
Wolfgang P Schleich
Klaus Sengstock
Reinhold Walser
Andreas Wicht
Patrick Windpassinger
Ernst M Rasel

DOI

10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1

eISSN

1476-4687

ISSN

0028-0836

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7727

Zeitschrift

Nature

Sprache

en

Online publication date

2018

Paginierung

391 - 395

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Herausgeber

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1

Datum der Datenerfassung

2023

Titel

Space-borne Bose–Einstein condensation for precision interferometry

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

562

Datenquelle: Crossref

Abstract

Owing to the low-gravity conditions in space, space-borne laboratories enable experiments with extended free-fall times. Because Bose-Einstein condensates have an extremely low expansion energy, space-borne atom interferometers based on Bose-Einstein condensation have the potential to have much greater sensitivity to inertial forces than do similar ground-based interferometers. On 23 January 2017, as part of the sounding-rocket mission MAIUS-1, we created Bose-Einstein condensates in space and conducted 110 experiments central to matter-wave interferometry, including laser cooling and trapping of atoms in the presence of the large accelerations experienced during launch. Here we report on experiments conducted during the six minutes of in-space flight in which we studied the phase transition from a thermal ensemble to a Bose-Einstein condensate and the collective dynamics of the resulting condensate. Our results provide insights into conducting cold-atom experiments in space, such as precision interferometry, and pave the way to miniaturizing cold-atom and photon-based quantum information concepts for satellite-based implementation. In addition, space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation opens up the possibility of quantum gas experiments in low-gravity conditions<sup>1,2</sup>.

Addresses

Institute of Quantum Optics, QUEST-Leibniz Research School, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany.

Autoren

Dennis Becker
Maike D Lachmann
Stephan T Seidel
Holger Ahlers
Aline N Dinkelaker
Jens Grosse
Ortwin Hellmig
Hauke Müntinga
Vladimir Schkolnik
Thijs Wendrich
André Wenzlawski
Benjamin Weps
Robin Corgier
Tobias Franz
Naceur Gaaloul
Waldemar Herr
Daniel Lüdtke
Manuel Popp
Sirine Amri
Hannes Duncker
Maik Erbe
Anja Kohfeldt
André Kubelka-Lange
Claus Braxmaier
Eric Charron
Wolfgang Ertmer
Markus Krutzik
Claus Lämmerzahl
Achim Peters
Wolfgang P Schleich
Klaus Sengstock
Reinhold Walser
Andreas Wicht
Patrick Windpassinger
Ernst M Rasel

DOI

10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1

eISSN

1476-4687

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 30333576

Open access

false

ISSN

0028-0836

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7727

Zeitschrift

Nature

Sprache

eng

Medium

Print-Electronic

Online publication date

2018

Paginierung

391 - 395

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Datum der Datenerfassung

2018

Titel

Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry.

Sub types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

562

Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central

Abstract

Owing to the low-gravity conditions in space, space-borne laboratories enable experiments with extended free-fall times. Because Bose-Einstein condensates have an extremely low expansion energy, space-borne atom interferometers based on Bose-Einstein condensation have the potential to have much greater sensitivity to inertial forces than do similar ground-based interferometers. On 23 January 2017, as part of the sounding-rocket mission MAIUS-1, we created Bose-Einstein condensates in space and conducted 110 experiments central to matter-wave interferometry, including laser cooling and trapping of atoms in the presence of the large accelerations experienced during launch. Here we report on experiments conducted during the six minutes of in-space flight in which we studied the phase transition from a thermal ensemble to a Bose-Einstein condensate and the collective dynamics of the resulting condensate. Our results provide insights into conducting cold-atom experiments in space, such as precision interferometry, and pave the way to miniaturizing cold-atom and photon-based quantum information concepts for satellite-based implementation. In addition, space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation opens up the possibility of quantum gas experiments in low-gravity conditions1,2.

Date of acceptance

2018

Autoren

Dennis Becker
Maike D Lachmann
Stephan T Seidel
Holger Ahlers
Aline N Dinkelaker
Jens Grosse
Ortwin Hellmig
Hauke Müntinga
Vladimir Schkolnik
Thijs Wendrich
André Wenzlawski
Benjamin Weps
Robin Corgier
Tobias Franz
Naceur Gaaloul
Waldemar Herr
Daniel Lüdtke
Manuel Popp
Sirine Amri
Hannes Duncker
Maik Erbe
Anja Kohfeldt
André Kubelka-Lange
Claus Braxmaier
Eric Charron
Wolfgang Ertmer
Markus Krutzik
Claus Lämmerzahl
Achim Peters
Wolfgang P Schleich
Klaus Sengstock
Reinhold Walser
Andreas Wicht
Patrick Windpassinger
Ernst M Rasel

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333576

DOI

10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1

eISSN

1476-4687

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

7727

Zeitschrift

Nature

Sprache

eng

Country

England

Paginierung

391 - 395

PII

10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2018

Status

Published

Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde

2019

Titel

Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry.

Sub types

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

562

Datenquelle: PubMed

Space-borne Bose-Einstein condensation for precision interferometry

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