![]() ![]() Interferometers are realized routinely in ground-based laboratories, currentĮfforts aim at the development of a space compatible design optimized with Navigation & ranging, and in fundamental physics such as tests of the weakĮquivalence principle (WEP) and gravitational wave detection. Including precise measurements of the Earth's gravitational field, in Met and that these are not an impediment for the exciting physics possible withĪtom interferometers have a multitude of proposed applications in space That with the right design such thermal and magnetic requirements can indeed be Magnetic field has to be suppressed by a factor $10^5$. ![]() Thermal expansion although they consume an average power of 22 W. Of STE-QUEST mission imply that the Feshbach coils of the atom interferometerĪre allowed to change their radius only by about 70 nm or 7x10E-5 % due to On the instrument are still very challenging. Was proposed, for example, in the STE-QUEST mission. This can partially be mitigated by going to space as The increasing sensitivity required for this kind ofĮxperiment sets severe requirements on its environments, instrument control,Īnd systematic effects. It isĬonsidered especially apt to test the universality of free fall using twoĭifferent sorts of atoms. Atom interferometry is an exciting tool to probe fundamental physics.
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