Domaines
Quantum information theory and quantum technologies
Quantum gases
Metrology
Type of internship
Expérimental et théorique Description
Atom interferometers rely on prescribed sequences (splitting, reflection, recombination), optimized step by step, whose precision improves by repeating measurements. This project asks a complementary question, crucial when interrogation time or the number of runs is limited: how much information can a single experimental cycle deliver? With a rubidium Bose–Einstein condensate in an optical lattice whose phase is modulated in real time, we recently showed that a modulation optimized from the Fisher information spontaneously builds an interferometer that reaches the quantum bound for force sensing in a fraction of a millisecond. The goal is now to identify what replaces the standard interferometric scheme when several parameters are measured simultaneously, such as the components of an acceleration, or an acceleration and a rotation. The quantity to optimize becomes a Fisher matrix, which encodes both the attainable precisions and the correlations between estimates. The project will first address force gradients, then two-dimensional vectorial sensing, comparing square and genuinely non-separable triangular lattices, and finally robustness against poorly known parameters and the role of atomic interactions. Combining experiment and numerical optimal control, it offers a complete training at the interface between cold atoms, quantum control and quantum metrology.
Contact
David Guéry-Odelin