Technology roadmap for cold-atoms based quantum inertial sensor in space

Sven Abend, Baptiste Allard, Aidan S. Arnold, Ticijana Ban, Liam Barry, Baptiste Battelier, Ahmad Bawamia, Quentin Beaufils, Simon Bernon, Andrea Bertoldi, Alexis Bonnin, Philippe Bouyer, Alexandre Bresson, Oliver S. Burrow, Benjamin Canuel, Bruno Desruelle, Giannis Drougakis, René Forsberg, Naceur Gaaloul, Alexandre GauguetMatthias Gersemann, Paul F. Griffin, Hendrik Heine, Victoria A. Henderson, Waldemar Herr, Simon Kanthak, Markus Krutzik, Maike D. Lachmann, Roland Lammegger, Werner Magnes, Gaetano Mileti, Morgan W. Mitchell, Sergio Mottini, Dimitris Papazoglou, Franck Pereira dos Santos, Achim Peters, Ernst Rasel, Erling Riis, Christian Schubert, Stephan Tobias Seidel, Guglielmo M. Tino, Mathias Van Den Bossche, Wolf von Klitzing, Andreas Wicht, Marcin Witkowski, Nassim Zahzam, Michał Zawada

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Abstract

Recent developments in quantum technology have resulted in a new generation of sensors for measuring inertial quantities, such as acceleration and rotation. These sensors can exhibit unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy when operated in space, where the free-fall interrogation time can be extended at will and where the environment noise is minimal. European laboratories have played a leading role in this field by developing concepts and tools to operate these quantum sensors in relevant environment, such as parabolic flights, free-fall towers, or sounding rockets. With the recent achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation on the International Space Station, the challenge is now to reach a technology readiness level sufficiently high at both component and system levels to provide “off the shelf” payload for future generations of space missions in geodesy or fundamental physics. In this roadmap, we provide an extensive review on the status of all common parts, needs, and subsystems for the application of atom-based interferometers in space, in order to push for the development of generic technology components.
Original languageEnglish
Article number019201
Number of pages31
JournalAVS Quantum Science
Volume5
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Mar 2023

Funding

Members of Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Quantenoptik acknowledge financial support from the German Space Agency (DLR) with funds provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) due to an enactment of the German Bundestag under Grant No. DLR 50WM1952 “QUANTUS-V Fallturm,” 50WM2250A “QUANTUS+,” 50WP1431 “QUANTUS-IV MAIUS,” 50WM1947 “KACTUS II,” 50RK1957 “QGyro,” 50NA2106 “QGyro+,” 50WM2060 “CARIOQA,” 50WM1861 “CAL,” 50WM2253A “AI-quadrat” and from “Niedersächsisches Vorab” through the “Quantum- and Nano-Metrology (QUANOMET)” initiative within the project QT3. Additionally, they acknowledge support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—project-ID 434617780–SFB 1464 TerraQ within the projects A01, A02, A03,—Project-ID 274200144—SFB 1227 DQ-mat within the Projects A05, B07, B09, and under Germany's Excellence Strategy—project-ID 390837967—EXC-2123 Quantum Frontiers. Members of LP2N, LCAR, LNE-SYRTE, and iXBlue acknowledge support from CNES support for ICE and through R&T program. LP2N and iXBlue are affiliated to the Naquidis Center for Quantum technologies. Members of LP2N acknowledge financial support from the “Agence Nationale pour la Recherche” (grant EOSBECMR No. ANR-18-CE91-0003-01 and grant MIGA No. ANR-11-EQPX-0028). P.B. acknowledges support by the Dutch National Growth Fund (NGF), as part of the Quantum Delta NL programme. M.W.M. acknowledges support from NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1), Generalitat de Catalunya Severo Ochoa: Center of Excellence CEX2019-000910-S, CERCA program, AGAUR Grant No. 2017-SGR-1354, project SAPONARIA (PID2021-123813NB-I00) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, Fundació Privada Cellex; Fundació Mir-Puig.

Keywords

  • electrical and electronic engineering
  • computational theory and mathematics
  • physical and theoretical chemistry
  • computer networks and communications
  • condensed matter physics
  • atomic and molecular physics, and optics
  • electronic, optical and magnetic materials

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