Cold atoms in space: community workshop summary and proposed road-map
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: We summarise the discussions at a virtual Community Workshop on Cold Atoms in Space concerning the status of cold atom technologies, the prospective scientific and societal opportunities offered by their deployment in space, and the developments needed before cold atoms could be operated in space. The cold atom technologies discussed include atomic clocks, quantum gravimeters and accelerometers, and atom interferometers. Prospective applications include metrology, geodesy and measurement of terrestrial mass change due to, e.g., climate change, and fundamental science experiments such as tests of the equivalence principle, searches for dark matter, measurements of gravitational waves and tests of quantum mechanics. We review the current status of cold atom technologies and outline the requirements for their space qualification, including the development paths and the corresponding technical milestones, and identifying possible pathfinder missions to pave the way for missions to exploit the full potential of cold atoms in space. Finally, we present a first draft of a possible road-map for achieving these goals, that we propose for discussion by the interested cold atom, Earth Observation, fundamental physics and other prospective scientific user communities, together with the European Space Agency (ESA) and national space and research funding agencies.
Source: EPJ Quantum Technology
Authors: Iván Alonso, Cristiano Alpigiani, Brett Altschul, Henrique Araújo, Gianluigi Arduini, Jan Arlt, Leonardo Badurina, Antun Balaž, Satvika Bandarupally, Barry C. Barish, Michele Barone, Michele Barsanti, Steven Bass, Angelo Bassi, Baptiste Battelier, Charles F. A. Baynham, Quentin Beaufils, Aleksandar Belić, Joel Bergé, Jose Bernabeu, Andrea Bertoldi, Robert Bingham, Sébastien Bize, Diego Blas, Kai Bongs, Philippe Bouyer, Carla Braitenberg, Christian Brand, Claus Braxmaier, Alexandre Bresson, Oliver Buchmueller, Dmitry Budker, Luís Bugalho, Sergey Burdin, Luigi Cacciapuoti, Simone Callegari, Xavier Calmet, Davide Calonico, Benjamin Canuel, Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete, Olivier Carraz, Donatella Cassettari, Pratik Chakraborty, Swapan Chattopadhyay, Upasna Chauhan, Xuzong Chen, Yu-Ao Chen, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Jonathon Coleman, Robin Corgier, J. P. Cotter, A. Michael Cruise, Yanou Cui, Gavin Davies, Albert De Roeck, Marcel Demarteau, Andrei Derevianko, Marco Di Clemente, Goran S. Djordjevic, Sandro Donadi, Olivier Doré, Peter Dornan, Michael Doser, Giannis Drougakis, Jacob Dunningham, Sajan Easo, Joshua Eby, Gedminas Elertas, John Ellis, David Evans, Pandora Examilioti, Pavel Fadeev, Mattia Fanì, Farida Fassi, Marco Fattori, Michael A. Fedderke, Daniel Felea, Chen-Hao Feng, Jorge Ferreras, Robert Flack, Victor V. Flambaum, René Forsberg, Mark Fromhold, Naceur Gaaloul, Barry M. Garraway, Maria Georgousi, Andrew Geraci, Kurt Gibble, Valerie Gibson, Patrick Gill, Gian F. Giudice, Jon Goldwin, Oliver Gould, Oleg Grachov, Peter W. Graham, Dario Grasso, Paul F. Griffin, Christine Guerlin, Mustafa Gündoğan, Ratnesh K. Gupta, Martin Haehnelt, Ekim T. Hanımeli, Leonie Hawkins, Aurélien Hees, Victoria A. Henderson, Waldemar Herr, Sven Herrmann, Thomas Hird, Richard Hobson, Vincent Hock, Jason M. Hogan, Bodil Holst, Michael Holynski, Ulf Israelsson, Peter Jeglič, Philippe Jetzer, Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Jernej F. Kamenik, Alex Kehagias, Teodora Kirova, Marton Kiss-Toth, Sebastian Koke, Shimon Kolkowitz, Georgy Kornakov, Tim Kovachy, Markus Krutzik, Mukesh Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Claus Lämmerzahl, Greg Landsberg, Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte, David R. Leibrandt, Thomas Lévèque, Marek Lewicki, Rui Li, Anna Lipniacka, Christian Lisdat, Mia Liu, J. L. Lopez-Gonzalez, Sina Loriani, Jorma Louko, Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano, Nathan Lundblad, Steve Maddox, M. A. Mahmoud, Azadeh Maleknejad, John March-Russell, Didier Massonnet, Christopher McCabe, Matthias Meister, Tadej Mežnaršič, Salvatore Micalizio, Federica Migliaccio, Peter Millington, Milan Milosevic, Jeremiah Mitchell, Gavin W. Morley, Jürgen Müller, Eamonn Murphy, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu, Val O’Shea, Daniel K. L. Oi, Judith Olson, Debapriya Pal, Dimitris G. Papazoglou, Elizabeth Pasatembou, Mauro Paternostro, Krzysztof Pawlowski, Emanuele Pelucchi, Franck Pereira dos Santos, Achim Peters, Igor Pikovski, Apostolos Pilaftsis, Alexandra Pinto, Marco Prevedelli, Vishnupriya Puthiya-Veettil, John Quenby, Johann Rafelski, Ernst M. Rasel, Cornelis Ravensbergen, Mirko Reguzzoni, Andrea Richaud, Isabelle Riou, Markus Rothacher, Albert Roura, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Dylan O. Sabulsky, Marianna Safronova, Ippocratis D. Saltas, Leonardo Salvi, Muhammed Sameed, Pandey Saurabh, Stefan Schäffer, Stephan Schiller, Manuel Schilling, Vladimir Schkolnik, Dennis Schlippert, Piet O. Schmidt, Harald Schnatz, Jean Schneider, Ulrich Schneider, Florian Schreck, Christian Schubert, Armin Shayeghi, Nathaniel Sherrill, Ian Shipsey, Carla Signorini, Rajeev Singh, Yeshpal Singh, Constantinos Skordis, Augusto Smerzi, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Fiodor Sorrentino, Paraskevas Sphicas, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Petruta Stefanescu, Marco G. Tarallo, Silvia Tentindo, Guglielmo M. Tino, Jonathan N. Tinsley, Vincenza Tornatore, Philipp Treutlein, Andrea Trombettoni, Yu-Dai Tsai, Philip Tuckey, Melissa A. Uchida, Tristan Valenzuela, Mathias Van Den Bossche, Ville Vaskonen, Gunjan Verma, Flavio Vetrano, Christian Vogt, Wolf von Klitzing, Pierre Waller, Reinhold Walser, Eric Wille, Jason Williams, Patrick Windpassinger, Ulrich Wittrock, Peter Wolf, Marian Woltmann, Lisa Wörner, André Xuereb, Mohamed Yahia, Efe Yazgan, Nan Yu, Nassim Zahzam, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Mingsheng Zhan, Xinhao Zou, Jure Zupan, Erik Zupanič
Institutions: Universitat de les Illes Balears, University of Washington, University of South Carolina, Imperial College London, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Aarhus University, King's College London, University of Belgrade, Institute of Physics Belgrade, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, University of Florence, California Institute of Technology, National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos", Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Pisa, University of Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace, Laboratoire Temps Espace, Université Paris-Saclay, Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Département Physique, Instrumentation, Environnement et Espace, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat de València, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Strathclyde, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institute for High Energy Physics, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, University of Birmingham, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR), Universität Ulm, University of Oxford, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Helmholtz Institute Mainz, University of California, Berkeley, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Liverpool, European Space Agency, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, University of Sussex, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Institute of Space Science - INFLPR Subsidiary, University of St Andrews, Leibniz University Hannover, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, University of California, Riverside, University of Antwerp, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, University of Nis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mohammed V University, Johns Hopkins University, University College London, UNSW Sydney, Technical University of Denmark, University of Nottingham, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Cambridge, National Physical Laboratory, Wayne State University, Collège de France, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, University of Bremen, University of Bergen, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, University of Zurich, Vilnius University, University of Ljubljana, National Technical University of Athens, University of Latvia, Teledyne e2v (United Kingdom), University of Wisconsin–Madison, Warsaw University of Technology, University of the Witwatersrand, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, Brown University, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Centre National d'Études Spatiales, University of Warsaw, Purdue University West Lafayette, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Leibniz Association, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Universitat de Lleida, Bates College, Fayoum University, Politecnico di Milano, University of Manchester, University of Warwick, Koç University, University of Glasgow, ColdQuanta, Inc., DBA Infleqtion (United States), Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, University of Crete, Queen's University Belfast, Center for Theoretical Physics, University College Cork, Tyndall National Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, University of Bologna, University of Arizona, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, ETH Zurich, University of Delaware, FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Laboratoire Univers et Théories, University of Vienna, Polish Academy of Sciences, National Institute of Optics, Institute of Space Sciences, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, The University of Sydney, Florida State University, University of Basel, University of California, Irvine, Thales Alenia Space (France), University of Urbino, Technische Universität Darmstadt, FH Münster University of Applied Sciences, University of Malta, International University of Sarajevo, National Taiwan University, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, CAS, University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,790
Awards: The Experimental Study of Particle Interactions at High Energy, The study of elementary particles and their interactions (Consolidated Grant 2019 - 2022), The Lancaster, Manchester, Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics: Particle Physics from the LHC to the Universe, Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics and Society, G4404904460, G498139845, G585908603, Differential atom interferometry and velocity selection using the clock transition of strontium atoms for AION, The Cosmology of the Early and Late Universe, G716412294, AION: A UK Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network, Theoretical Studies of Particles & Strings, G86560745, The Lancaster, Manchester, Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics: Particle Physics from colliders to the Universe, G969889393
OpenAlex ID: W4221143574