Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Absolute marine gravimetry with matter-wave interferometry

  • Y. Bidel,
  • N. Zahzam,
  • C. Blanchard,
  • A. Bonnin,
  • M. Cadoret,
  • A. Bresson,
  • D. Rouxel,
  • M. F. Lequentrec-Lalancette

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03040-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Measuring gravitational and inertial acceleration in a moving platform is important for sensing and navigation but is also very challenging. Here the authors demonstrate the ship-borne absolute gravity acceleration measurements using an atom interferometer.