Fundamental Limits of Large Momentum Transfer in Optical Lattices

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00365v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:28:45 GMT
• Title: Fundamental Limits of Large Momentum Transfer in Optical Lattices
• Authors: Ashkan Alibabaei, Patrik Mönkeberg, Florian Fitzek, Alexandre Gauguet, Baptiste Allard, Klemens Hammerer, Naceur Gaaloul,
• Abstract summary: Large-momentum-transfer techniques are instrumental for the next generation of atom interferometers.<n>State-of-the-art implementations rely on elastic scattering processes from optical lattices such as Bloch oscillations or sequential Bragg diffraction.<n>Here we develop a Floquet-based theoretical framework that provides a unified description of elastic light-atom scattering across all relevant regimes.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large-momentum-transfer techniques are instrumental for the next generation of atom interferometers as they significantly improve their sensitivity. State-of-the-art implementations rely on elastic scattering processes from optical lattices such as Bloch oscillations or sequential Bragg diffraction, but their performance is constrained by imperfect pulse efficiencies. Here we develop a Floquet-based theoretical framework that provides a unified description of elastic light-atom scattering across all relevant regimes. Within this formalism, we identify practical regimes that exhibit orders of magnitude reduced losses and improved phase accuracy compared to previous implementations. The model's validity is established through direct comparison with exact numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation and through quantitative agreement with recent experimental benchmark results. These findings delineate previously unexplored operating regimes for large-momentum-transfer beam splitters and open new perspectives for precision atom-interferometric measurements in fundamental physics, gravity gradiometry or gravitational wave detection.

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