Controlling a Bose-Einstein Condensate in Space: Towards Space Based Atom Interferometry
Abstract
We describe recent experimental work aboard the International Space Station using the NASA facility CAL, the Cold Atom Laboratory. We will describe significant progress on quantum gas manipulation in microgravity using short cuts to adiabaticity (STA) protocols and on delta kick cooling (DKC) in Space. We describe our success in the context of enabling high performance atom interferometry in space.
This work was supported by NASA German Space Agency (DLR) with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Economic Af- fairs and Energy (BMWi) due to an enactment of the German Bun- destag under Grant No. 50WM1861/2, and by ``Niedersaüchsisches Vorab'' through the QUANOMET initiative-project QT3, and finan- cial support from NASA through CUAS RSAs including 1585910.- Publication:
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APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020APS..DMPJ06010B