A portable magneto-optical trap with prospects for atom interferometry in civil engineering
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 42817274
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rsta.2016.0238
- Title of journal
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Article number
- 20160238
- First page
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- Volume
- 375
- Issue
- 2099
- ISSN
- 1364-503X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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23
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- No established sensor technology solves current geophysical subsurface surveying challenges. This interdisciplinary paper defines the requirements for a quantum gravity sensor for civil engineering applications as early adopters championed by the UK government Blackett review (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/564946/gs-16-18-quantum-technologies-report.pdf) and DSTL (http://uknqt.epsrc.ac.uk/files/ukquantumtechnologylandscape2016/). It resulted in: (1) 75% increase in commercial microgravity surveys for RSK (Divisional Director Geoscience and Engineering); (2) Staff increase by 25 for Te2v costing £100k/a (VP Innovation, Space and Quantum); (3) Investment of ~£2.7M by Te2v and RSK into InnovateUK; and (4) 7 IUK/EPSRC projects with a total value of ~£13.1M (EP/M508378/1, EP/R000212/1, EP/R000220/1, EP/R020019/1, EP/R020035/1, Gravity Pioneer, QT-MIBA).
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- Non-English
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