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Atom interferometry has emerged as a transformative approach in both fundamental physics and practical applications, utilising the wave nature of atoms to measure minute effects of gravity, rotation ...

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, shown where it’s installed aboard the International Space Station, recently demonstrated the use of a tool called an atom interferometer that can precisely measure gravity and ...

Extremely precise measurements are possible using atom interferometers that employ the wave character of atoms for this purpose. They can thus be used, for example, to measure the gravitational field ...

A new type of atom interferometer built by researchers at the University of Colorado (UC) Boulder measures acceleration in three dimensions (3D). Prior to this, acceleration was always measured in one ...

A team of UC Berkeley researchers, led by campus physics professor Holger Müller, has made progress in the field of dark energy, developing a new method in atom interferometry that has implications ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a highly sensitive new tool that amplifies incredibly faint signals by 1,000 times, achieving a 50-fold improvement over previous methods. The ...

Sandia National Laboratories scientist Jongmin Lee, left, prepares a rubidium cold-atom cell for an atom interferometry experiment while scientists Ashok Kodigala, right, and Michael Gehl initialize ...