Detection-resolution limits of large-momentum-transfer atom gravimetry
Source: Originally published on arXiv quant-ph on August 3, 2026.
arXiv:2607.28749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large momentum transfer (LMT) enhances the gravitational phase of a light-pulse atom interferometer by a factor $n$, while mirrorless operation with momentum-resolved detection can quadruple the phase-carrying quantum Fisher information. These gains compete in practice because the momentum-space fringe period scales as $1/n$, making the fringe signal increasingly vulnerable to finite detector resolution. We analyze this trade-off in a solvable model with instantaneous lossless $n$-photon pulses, a Gaussian source, and Gaussian detection blur, allowing continuous interpolation between Kasevich--Chu and mirrorless geometries. Closed-form expressions for the blurred output distributions and classical Fisher information are obtained, with a fring...
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