Testing gravity with cold atom interferometry: results and prospects
Open Access
- 4 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Quantum Science and Technology
- Vol. 6 (2), 024014
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/abd83e
Abstract
Atom interferometers have been developed in the last three decades as new powerful tools to investigate gravity. They were used for measuring the gravity acceleration, the gravity gradient, and the gravity-field curvature, for the determination of the gravitational constant, for the investigation of gravity at microscopic distances, to test the equivalence principle of general relativity and the theories of modified gravity, to probe the interplay between gravitational and quantum physics and to test quantum gravity models, to search for dark matter and dark energy, and they were proposed as new detectors for the observation of gravitational waves. Here I describe past and ongoing experiments with an outlook on what I think are the main prospects in this field and the potential to search for new physics.Keywords
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