Strontium clock atom interferometry for fundamental physics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Clock atom interferometers, quantum sensors based on the interference of atomic matter-waves excited by resonant pulses of light, show promise for measurements of industrial use as well as tests of fundamental physics. The fundamental advance of clock atom interferometry is the use of optical transitions with exceptional lifetime as the basis of the interferometer, giving new capabilities to what has become a standard technique. Although they are already showing performance that by some metrics surpasses the best devices using conventional matter-wave optics, more development is required for clock atom interferometers to be deployed in next-generation sensors. This thesis documents the development of two future experiments that aim to apply clock atom interferometry to questions in fundamental physics. The QMATCH experiment is designed to measure the electric charge of nominally neutral atoms beyond the limits of the best classical tests, using the scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect. MAGIS-100, currently under construction at Fermilab, is a 100 m-scale atom interferometer that aims to search for ultralight dark matter and to serve as a pathfinder for future gravitational wave observatories based on clock atom interferometry. In addition, this thesis reports a novel technique for matter-wave optics in alkaline earth atoms, exciting the 3P0 clock state of bosonic Sr-88 using a novel three-photon process in a collinear geometry.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2024; ©2024 |
| Publication date | 2024; 2024 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Garber, Benjamin Elliott |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hogan, Jason |
| Thesis advisor | Hogan, Jason |
| Thesis advisor | Hollberg, Leo (Leo William |
| Thesis advisor | Schleier-Smith, Monika |
| Degree committee member | Hollberg, Leo (Leo William |
| Degree committee member | Schleier-Smith, Monika |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Benjamin Elliott Garber. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2024. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rn182vv1003 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2024 by Benjamin Elliott Garber
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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