Controlling a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Space: Towards Space Based Atom Interferometry

ORAL

Abstract

We describe recent experimental work aboard the International Space Station using the NASA facility CAL, the Cold Atom Laboratory. We will describe significant progress on quantum gas manipulation in microgravity using short cuts to adiabaticity (STA) protocols and on delta kick cooling (DKC) in Space. We describe our success in the context of enabling high performance atom interferometry in space.

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Authors

  • Nicholas Bigelow

    University of Rochester

  • Naceur Gaaloul

    Institut of Quantrum Optics, Leibiz University of hannover, Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

  • Matthias Meister

    Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, Germany

  • Annie Pichery

    Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay, France

  • Waldemar Herr

    Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

  • Ernst M. Rasel

    Institut of Quantrum Optics, Leibiz University of hannover, LUH & DLR, Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics

  • Wolfgang P. Schleich

    UUlm & DLR, Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, Germany, Ulm University \& Institute of Quantum Technologies, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm University; Institute of Quantum Technologies, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

  • Robin Corgier

    Institut of Quantrum Optics, Leibiz University of hannover, Institut für Quantenop- tik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

  • Patrick Boegel

    Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, Germany, Ulm University

  • Robert Thompson

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

  • Jason Williams

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA