Cold Atom Lab: Five Years of Quantum Science on the International Space Station
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Abstract
We present results from the first five operational years of NASA’s Cold Atom Lab (CAL), a versatile multi-user research facility designed to utilize the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to study quantum matter and to serve as a pathfinder for maturing quantum technologies in space. Scientific accomplishments by the original five flight research teams will be highlighted along with near-term plans for enhanced capabilities and research opportunities with CAL to prepare and study quantum gases and mixtures of rubidium-87, potassium-39, and potassium-41at sub-nanokelvin temperatures. We will further report on recently established capabilities for dual-species matter-wave interferometry in space. The impact from this work, and potential for follow-on studies, will be reviewed in the context of future space-based fundamental physics missions.
This research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
This research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
*Designed, managed and operated by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cold Atom Lab is sponsored by the Biological and Physical Sciences Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington and the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Presenters
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Jason R Williams
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory