Published June 2004
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Journal article
Decrease in the visibility of the interference fringes in a cold-atom accelerometer
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 (United States)
Description
We analyze operation of a cold-atom accelerometer, an interferometric device which measures linear accelerations. We develop an analytic model that predicts a decrease in the visibility of the interference fringes and also their shift caused by the acceleration of the device. This effect places an upper limit on the maximum value of acceleration that can be measured for given parameters of the confining potential and the measurement cycle time
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 69
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 063611-063611.7
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36084813
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETERS; ATOMS; INTERFERENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; OPERATION; OPTICS; POTENTIALS; VISIBILITY
- Descriptors DEC
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
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- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society