Title :
Testing the universality of free fall with a two species atomic gravimeter
Author :
Hartwig, Jonas ; Schlippert, Dennis ; Velte, Ulrich ; Tiarks, Daniel ; Winter, Nils ; Zaiser, Maic ; Lebedev, Vyacheslav ; Ertmer, Wolfgang ; Rasel, Ernst Maria
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Quantenopt., Univ. Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Abstract :
In the CAPRICE experiment, the authors employ atom interferometry to compare the free fall of potassium and rubidium atoms with a differential atomic gravimeter. This leads to a precision test of the universality of free fall with two quantum objects. The paper presents the first results with the single species rubidium gravimeter and show the progress of the system update to trap and manipulate potassium atoms. The progress in working with an optical dipole trap at a wavelength of 1960 nm was also presented.
Keywords :
atom optics; general relativity; gravimeters; particle interferometry; potassium; radiation pressure; rubidium; CAPRICE experiment; K; Rb; atom interferometry; differential atomic gravimeter; optical dipole trap; quantum objects; universality of free fall; wavelength 1960 nm;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942931