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Towards Entanglement-Enhanced Atom Interferometry Using Bow-Tie Cavities

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18552v1
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:01:45 GMT
Title: Towards Entanglement-Enhanced Atom Interferometry Using Bow-Tie Cavities
Abstract summary: monolithic bowtie cavity developed to achieve a strong collective atom-light coupling with strontium atoms.<n>For ensembles containing up to $105$ atoms, the cavity is expected to enable metrological gains approaching 24 dB of spin squeezing through cavity-related squeezing.
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Abstract: Atom interferometers are among the most sensitive instruments for precision measurements and tests of fundamental physics. Their performance, however, is ultimately limited by quantum projection noise when uncorrelated atomic ensembles are employed. Cavity-assisted generation of entangled states has proven to be a promising route toward quantum-enhanced interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit. In this work, we present the realization and characterization of a monolithic bow-tie cavity developed to achieve a strong collective atom-light coupling with strontium atoms. Unlike conventional standing-wave Fabry-Pérot resonators, the traveling-wave geometry of the bow-tie cavity provides homogeneous atom-light coupling over the entire atomic ensemble, making it particularly suitable for entanglement-enhanced atom interferometry with freely falling atoms. The monolithic cavity architecture presents several scientifically relevant features such as high mechanical stability, high finesse, robustness against mirror misalignment, optical and atomic access and the option of generating squeezed states through different strategies. The cavity was realized for operation on the strontium $(5s^2) ^1S_0-(5s5p) ^3P_1$ transition at 689 nm and achieves a finesse of $\mathcal{F}=5.7\times 10^4$ while keeping the transmission of a single mirror sufficiently large to allow for efficient atomic information extraction. In this geometry, the cavity supports two foci with waists of 164 $μ$m and 31 $μ$m which gives access to different regimes of atom-cavity coupling. For ensembles containing up to $10^5$ atoms, the cavity is expected to enable metrological gains approaching 24 dB of spin squeezing through cavity-feedback squeezing, and 28 dB through quantum non-demolition measurements, demonstrating its potential as a platform for next-generation quantum-enhanced atom interferometers.

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