Search Results - "Dittus, H."

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Microgravity by van Zoest, T, Gaaloul, N, Singh, Y, Ahlers, H, Herr, W, Seidel, S.T, Ertmer, W, Rasel, E, Eckart, M, Kajari, E, Arnold, S, Nandi, G, Schleich, W.P, Walser, R, Vogel, A, Sengstock, K, Bongs, K, Lewoczko-Adamczyk, W, Schiemangk, M, Schuldt, T, Peters, A, Könemann, T, Müntinga, H, Lämmerzahl, C, Dittus, H, Steinmetz, T, Hänsch, T.W, Reichel, J

“…Albert Einstein's insight that it is impossible to distinguish a local experiment in a "freely falling elevator" from one in free space led to the development…”
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Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity by Müntinga, H, Ahlers, H, Krutzik, M, Wenzlawski, A, Arnold, S, Becker, D, Bongs, K, Dittus, H, Duncker, H, Gaaloul, N, Gherasim, C, Giese, E, Grzeschik, C, Hänsch, T W, Hellmig, O, Herr, W, Herrmann, S, Kajari, E, Kleinert, S, Lämmerzahl, C, Lewoczko-Adamczyk, W, Malcolm, J, Meyer, N, Nolte, R, Peters, A, Popp, M, Reichel, J, Roura, A, Rudolph, J, Schiemangk, M, Schneider, M, Seidel, S T, Sengstock, K, Tamma, V, Valenzuela, T, Vogel, A, Walser, R, Wendrich, T, Windpassinger, P, Zeller, W, van Zoest, T, Ertmer, W, Schleich, W P, Rasel, E M

“…Atom interferometers covering macroscopic domains of space-time are a spectacular manifestation of the wave nature of matter. Because of their unique coherence…”
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Why Doing Fundamental Physics on the ISS?—The Experimental Conditions by Dittus, H.

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Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity by VOGEL, A, SCHMIDT, M, STEINMETZ, T, REICHEL, J, KÖNEMANN, T, BRINKMANN, W, GÖKLÜ, E, LÄMMERZAHL, C, DITTUS, H. J, NANDI, G, SCHLEICH, W. P, WALSER, R, SENGSTOCK, K, BONGS, K, LEWOCZKO, W, SCHULDT, T, PETERS, A, VAN ZOEST, T, ERTMER, W, RASEL, E

“…We report the current status of our cooperative effort to realize a 87Rb Bose--Einstein condensate in microgravity. Targeting the long-term goal of studying…”
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Tests of the weak equivalence principle for charged particles in space by Dittus, H., Lämmerzahl, C.

“…The Weak Equivalence Principle states that in a gravitational field all structureless point-like particles follow the same path. The Weak Equivalence Principle…”
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A freely falling magneto-optical trap drop tower experiment by KÖNEMANN, T, BRINKMANN, W, PETERS, A, VOGEL, A, JOHANNSEN, G, WILDFANG, S, BONGS, K, SENGSTOCK, K, KAJARI, E, NANDI, G, WALSER, R, SCHLEICH, W. P, GÖKLÜ, E, LÄMMERZAHL, C, DITTUS, H, VAN ZOEST, T, RASEL, E. M, ERTMER, W, LEWOCZKO-ADAMCZYK, W, SCHIEMANGK, M

“…We experimentally demonstrate the possibility of preparing ultracold atoms in the environment of weightlessness at the earth-bound short-term microgravity…”
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OPTIS – A Satellite test of Special and General Relativity by Dittus, H., Lämmerzahl, C., Peters, A., Schiller, S.

“…OPTIS has been proposed as a small satellite platform in a high elliptical orbit (apogee 40,000 km, perigee 10,000 km) and is designed for high precision tests…”
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OPTIS—An Einstein Mission for Improved Tests of Special and General Relativity by Lämmerzahl, C., Ciufolini, I., Dittus, H., Iorio, L., Müller, H., Peters, A., Samain, E., Scheithauer, S., Schiller, S.

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OPTIS satellite mission for improved tests of special and general relativity—Concept for a technology reference mission by Dittus, H., Lämmerzahl, C., Peters, A., Schiller, S.

“…Science goals: The mission OPTIS aims at testing the foundations of special and general relativity by up to three orders of improvement. The individual tests…”
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Fundamental Physics in Space: A guide to present projects by Lämmerzahl, C., Dittus, H.

“…A review is presented about most of the current Fundamental Physics (FP) projects in space. After illustrating of what is meant by FP and which are its…”
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STEP (satellite test of the equivalence principle) by Sumner, T.J., Anderson, J., Blaser, J.-P., Cruise, A.M., Damour, T., Dittus, H., Everitt, C.W.F., Foulon, B., Jafry, Y., Kent, B.J., Lockerbie, N., Loeffler, F., Mann, G., Mester, J., Pegrum, C., Reinhardt, R., Sandford, M., Scheicher, A., Speake, C.C., Torii, R., Theil, S., Touboul, P., Vitale, S., Vodel, W., Worden, P.W.

“…STEP is one of a number of missions now being developed to take advantage of the quiet space environment to carry out very sensitive gravitational experiments…”
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Proposals for fundamental physics experiments under weightlessness conditions by Dittus, H, Lämmerzahl, C, Lockerbie, N

“…The results of a 2-year lasting ESA Topical Team on Fundamental Physics on the International Space Station are presented. The report starts with a short review…”
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Application of LTS-SQUIDs for testing the weak equivalence principle at the Drop Tower Bremen by Vodel, W., Nietzsche, S., Neubert, R., Dittus, H.

“…Free fall tests to prove the weak equivalence principle were rarely be done in history. Presently, very precise fall tests in the 10 −13 range are possible and…”
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Drop tower tests of the Weak Principle of Equivalence — One step to space missions for gravitational physics by Dittus, H., Vodel, W., Greger, R., Lochmann, St, Mehls, C., Koch, H., Nietzsche, S., Zameck-Glyscinski, J.v.

“…Experiments on the Drop Tower Bremen aim at a proof of the Weak Equivalence Principle and the determination of the Eötvös factor with an accuracy of less than…”
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SQUID-based accelerometer and final concept for testing the equivalence principle at the drop tower by Mehls, C, Dittus, H, Lochmann, St

“…The Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) is a fundamental principle in physics. Although the most obvious way to proof the equivalence of inertial and…”
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Processing of poled second-order nonlinear optical polymer systems under microgravity conditions by Dao, L.H., Parbhakar, K., Nguyen, H.M., Jin, J.M., Sun, Y., Beaudoin, Y., Dittus, H., Eigenbrod, C.

“…Organic polymeric thin films for photonic applications has been a rapidly exciting area of research over the last decade. Second-order nonlinear optical…”
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Testing Einstein's equivalence principle at Bremen Drop Tower using LTS SQUID technique by Vodel, W., Koch, H., Nietzsche, S., Zameck Glyscinski, J.V., Neubert, R., Dittus, H.

“…Free fall tests to prove the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) were rarely be done in history. Although they seem to be the natural experiments to test the…”
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Drop tower tests of the Equivalence Principle by Dittus, H., Vodel, W., Lochmann, St, Mehls, C., Nietzsche, S., Zameck Glyscinski, J.v., Koch, H.

“…Up to now an experimental proof of a violation of the Weak Principle of Equivalence (WEP) has been missing. Experiments carried out differ mainly in the…”
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Application of high performance LTS SQUID systems in gravitational experiments by Vodel, W., Koch, H., Nietzsche, S., Glyscinski, J.V.Z., Neubert, R., Pilz, M., Dittus, H., Lochmann, S., Mehls, C., Lockowandt, D.

“…The design of a Galilean-type free-fall experiment to test Einstein's equivalence principle at an improved level of sensitivity is described. Two test bodies…”
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Low noise LTS SQUIDs for application in gravitational experiments by Vodel, W., Koch, H., Nietzsche, S., Zameck Glyscinski, J. V., Dittus, H., Lochmann, S., Mehls, C.

“…The Weak Principle of Equivalence (WEP) is proved up to now with an accuracy of 1/spl times/10/sup -12/. Short range free fall experiments attained an accuracy…”
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