Temporal Pulse Origins in Atom Interferometric Quantum Sensors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01900v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:13:03 GMT
• Title: Temporal Pulse Origins in Atom Interferometric Quantum Sensors
• Abstract summary: Quantum sensors based upon atom interferometry rely on radio-frequency or optical pulses to coherently manipulate atomic states.<n>Introductor phase response of any pulse can be parameterized using a single point in time.<n>We show that the temporal origin permits a simple determination of the measurement scale factor and its stability against environmental perturbations.
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• Abstract: Quantum sensors based upon atom interferometry typically rely on radio-frequency or optical pulses to coherently manipulate atomic states and make precise measurements of inertial and gravitational effects. An advantage of these sensors over their classical counterparts is often said to be that their measurement scale factor is precisely known and highly stable. However, in practice the finite pulse duration makes the sensor scale factor dependent upon the pulse shape and sensitive to variations in control field intensity, frequency, and atomic velocity. Here, we explore the concept of a temporal pulse origin in atom interferometry, where the inertial phase response of any pulse can be parameterized using a single point in time. We show that the temporal origin permits a simple determination of the measurement scale factor and its stability against environmental perturbations. Moreover, the temporal origin can be treated as a tunable parameter in the design of tailored sequences of shaped pulses to enhance scale factor stability and minimize systematic errors. We demonstrate through simulations that this approach to pulse design can reduce overall sequence durations while increasing robustness to realistic fluctuations in control field amplitude. Our results show that the temporal pulse origin explains a broad class of systematic errors in existing devices and enables the design of short, robust pulses which we expect will improve the performance of current and next-generation interferometric quantum sensors.

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