Chinese Physics B, Volume. 29, Issue 9, (2020)

Calibration of a compact absolute atomic gravimeter

Hong-Tai Xie1,2,3, Bin Chen1,2,3, Jin-Bao Long1,2,3, Chun Xue4, Luo-Kan Chen1,2,3, and Shuai Chen1,2,3、†
Author Affiliations
  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2Shanghai Branch, CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai 01315, China
  • 3Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 20115, China
  • 4Shanghai Division, QuantumCTek Co., Ltd. Shanghai 201315, China
  • show less

    Compact atomic gravimeters are the potential next generation precision instruments for gravity survey from fundamental research to broad field applications. We report the calibration results of our home build compact absolute atomic gravimeter USTC-AG02 at Changping Campus, the National Institute of Metrology (NIM), China in January 2019. The sensitivity of the atomic gravimeter reaches 35.5μGal/Hz (1 μGal = 1 × 10-8 m/s2) and its long-term stability reaches 0.8 μGal for averaging over 4000 seconds. Considering the statistical uncertainty, the dominant instrumental systematic errors and environmental effects are evaluated and corrected within a total uncertainty (2σ) of 15.3 μGal. After compared with the reference g value given by the corner cube gravimeter NIM-3A, the atomic gravimeter USTC-AG02 reaches the degree of equivalence of 3.7 μGal.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Hong-Tai Xie, Bin Chen, Jin-Bao Long, Chun Xue, Luo-Kan Chen, Shuai Chen. Calibration of a compact absolute atomic gravimeter[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(9):

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Received: May. 30, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 29, 2021

    The Author Email: Chen Shuai (shuai@ustc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/aba27b

    Topics