Technology roadmap for cold-atoms based quantum inertial sensor in space

Abend, Sven and Allard, Baptiste and Arnold, Aidan S. and Ban, Ticijana and Barry, Liam and Battelier, Baptiste and Bawamia, Ahmad and Beaufils, Quentin and Bernon, Simon and Bertoldi, Andrea and Bonnin, Alexis and Bouyer, Philippe and Bresson, Alexandre and Burrow, Oliver S. and Canuel, Benjamin and Desruelle, Bruno and Drougakis, Giannis and Forsberg, René and Gaaloul, Naceur and Gauguet, Alexandre and Gersemann, Matthias and Griffin, Paul F. and Heine, Hendrik and Henderson, Victoria A. and Herr, Waldemar and Kanthak, Simon and Krutzik, Markus and Lachmann, Maike D. and Lammegger, Roland and Magnes, Werner and Mileti, Gaetano and Mitchell, Morgan W. and Mottini, Sergio and Papazoglou, Dimitris and Pereira dos Santos, Franck and Peters, Achim and Rasel, Ernst and Riis, Erling and Schubert, Christian and Seidel, Stephan Tobias and Tino, Guglielmo M. and Van Den Bossche, Mathias and von Klitzing, Wolf and Wicht, Andreas and Witkowski, Marcin and Zahzam, Nassim and Zawada, Michał (2023) Technology roadmap for cold-atoms based quantum inertial sensor in space. AVS Quantum Science, 5 (1). 019201. ISSN 2639-0213 (https://doi.org/10.1116/5.0098119)

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Abstract

Recent developments in quantum technology have resulted in a new generation of sensors for measuring inertial quantities, such as acceleration and rotation. These sensors can exhibit unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy when operated in space, where the free-fall interrogation time can be extended at will and where the environment noise is minimal. European laboratories have played a leading role in this field by developing concepts and tools to operate these quantum sensors in relevant environment, such as parabolic flights, free-fall towers, or sounding rockets. With the recent achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation on the International Space Station, the challenge is now to reach a technology readiness level sufficiently high at both component and system levels to provide “off the shelf” payload for future generations of space missions in geodesy or fundamental physics. In this roadmap, we provide an extensive review on the status of all common parts, needs, and subsystems for the application of atom-based interferometers in space, in order to push for the development of generic technology components.

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