Cold atoms in space
community workshop summary and proposed road-map
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.
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- Organisation(s)
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QuantumFrontiers
Quantum Sensing
Institute of Geodesy
Institute of Quantum Optics
- External Organisation(s)
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University of the Balearic Islands
University of Washington (UW)
University of South Carolina
Imperial College London
CERN
Aarhus University
King's College London
University of Belgrade
University of Florence (UniFi)
California Institute of Caltech (Caltech)
National Centre For Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSR Demokritos)
University of Pisa
Kitzbühel Centre for Physics
University of Trieste
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOTA)
Observatoire de Paris (OBSPARIS)
Université Paris-Saclay
University of Valencia (UV)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Strathclyde
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE)
University of Birmingham
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Ulm University
University of Oxford
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Universidade de Lisboa
University of Liverpool
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
University of Sussex
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM)
Institute of Space Science (ISS), Romania
RHEA Group
University of St. Andrews
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Stanford University
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
Peking University
University of Science and Technology of China
CAS - Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences (SRCQS)
Sezione di Pisa
University of California at Riverside
University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Nevada, Reno
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
University of Nis
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
University of Tokyo
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mohammed V University in Rabat
Johns Hopkins University
UCL
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Technical University of Denmark
University of Nottingham
Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Cambridge
National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Wayne State University
Universite Paris 6
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin)
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)
University of Bremen
University of Bergen (UiB)
Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI)
University of Zurich (UZH)
Vilnius University
University of Ljubljana
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
University of Latvia
Teledyne e2v
University of Wisconsin
Warsaw University of Technology
University of the Witwatersrand
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
Brown University
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)
University of Warsaw
Purdue University
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (DRFZ)
Universitat de Lleida
Bates College
Al-Fayoum University
Politecnico di Milano
University of Manchester
University of Warwick
Koc University
University of Glasgow
ColdQuanta, Inc.
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics - AMOLF
University of Crete
Queen's University Belfast
Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
University College Cork
School of Business
Stockholm University (SU)
Hoursec
University of Bologna
University of Arizona
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
ETH Zurich
University of Delaware
Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS)
University of Amsterdam
University Hospital Düsseldorf
University of Vienna
Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC)
Sezione di Genova
University of Athens
University of Sydney
Florida State University
University of Basel
University of California at Irvine
Thales
University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Münster University of Applied Sciences
University of Malta
International University of Sarajevo (IUS)
National Taiwan University
Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Cincinnati
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt PTB
- Type
- Review article
- Journal
- EPJ Quantum Technology
- Volume
- 9
- No. of pages
- 55
- Publication date
- 20.11.2022
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012)
- Satellite geodesy, Condensed matter, Atomic physics, Electronics
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, SDG 13 - Climate Action
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-022-00147-w (Access:
Open
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https://doi.org/10.15488/13589 (Access: Open )
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