arXiv Open Access 2025

A Prototype Atom Interferometer to Detect Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves

C. F. A. Baynham R. Hobson O. Buchmueller D. Evans L. Hawkins +87 lainnya
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The AION project has built a tabletop prototype of a single-photon long-baseline atom interferometer using the 87Sr clock transition - a type of quantum sensor designed to search for dark matter and gravitational waves. Our prototype detector operates at the Standard Quantum Limit (SQL), producing a signal with no unexpected noise beyond atom shot noise. Importantly, the detector remains at the SQL even when additional laser phase noise is introduced, emulating conditions in a long-baseline detector such as AION or AEDGE where significant laser phase deviations will accumulate during long atom interrogation times. Our results mark a key milestone in extending atom interferometers to long baselines. Such interferometers can complement laser-interferometer gravitational wave detectors by accessing the mid-frequency gravitational wave band around 1 Hz, and can search for physics beyond the Standard Model.

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C. F. A. Baynham

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R. Hobson

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O. Buchmueller

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D. Evans

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L. Hawkins

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Baynham, C.F.A., Hobson, R., Buchmueller, O., Evans, D., Hawkins, L., Iannizzotto-Venezze, L. et al. (2025). A Prototype Atom Interferometer to Detect Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09158

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