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Ten quectonewton local force sensor with atom interferometry for probing atom-surface interaction
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Yann Balland
(SYRTE)
01/06/2023 11:00
Atom interferometers are exquisite tools for force measurements such as gravity. However, state-of-the-art such sensors use free-falling atoms and hence cannot perform purely local force measurements. Instead, we use here optically trapped atoms to perform force sensing close to the surface of a mirror and probe with unprecedented sensitivity atom-surface interactions.
We start with a...