Engineered atomic states for precision interferometry

authored by: Robin Corgier
supervised by: Christiane Koch
Abstract: Modern physics relies on two distinct fun- damental theories, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Both describe on one hand macroscopic and cosmological phenomena such as gravitational waves and black holes and on the other hand micro- scopic phenomena as superfluidity or the spin of par- ticles. The unification of these two theories remains, so far, an unsolved problem. Interestingly, candidate Quantum Gravity theories predict a violation of the principles of General Relativity at different levels. It is, therefore, of a timely interest to detect violations of these principles and determine at which level they occur.
Organisation(s): QUEST-Leibniz Research School
Type: Doctoral thesis
No. of pages: 192
Publication date: 2019
Publication status: Published
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.15488/5152 (Access: Open)
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BibTeX

@phdthesis{e1824bf3e25f4840955b4520f51685eb,
title = "Engineered atomic states for precision interferometry",
abstract = "Modern physics relies on two distinct fun- damental theories, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Both describe on one hand macroscopic and cosmological phenomena such as gravitational waves and black holes and on the other hand micro- scopic phenomena as superfluidity or the spin of par- ticles. The unification of these two theories remains, so far, an unsolved problem. Interestingly, candidate Quantum Gravity theories predict a violation of the principles of General Relativity at different levels. It is, therefore, of a timely interest to detect violations of these principles and determine at which level they occur.",
author = "Robin Corgier",
note = "Funding information: I am grateful to the German Foreign Academic Exchange (DAAD) for partially supporting my research activities in Germany in 2016. I would like to thank the IP@Leibniz program of the Leibniz University of Hanover for travel grants supporting my stays in France. I would like to acknowledge the mobility support from the Q-SENSE project, which has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Horizon 2020 program under Grant Agreement Number 691156 to support my stay at Stanford during my 3-month research stay in 2018. Additional mobility funds were thankfully made available through the bilateral exchange project PHC-Procope giving me the possibility to travel to France during my PhD time. Many thanks to the Universit{\'e} Franco-Allemande for the support to invite my committee board the day of my defense. Doctoral thesis",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.15488/5152",
language = "English",
publisher = "Leibniz Universit{\"a}t Hannover",
school = "Leibniz University Hannover",
}