Program Summary
The “Science of Atomic Vapors for New Technologies” (SAVaNT) program aims to significantly advance the performance of atomic vapors as a room-temperature (RT) platform for enabling new technologies in the areas of electric field sensing and imaging, magnetic field sensing, and quantum information science (QIS).
SAVaNT has three Technical Areas based on the application domains where atomic vapors are expected to have the biggest impact: (1) Rydberg Electrometry, (2) Vector Magnetometry, and (3) Vapor Quantum Electrodynamics (vQED). The common scientific challenge is to improve atomic coherence at room temperature. The associated technical challenges depend somewhat on the specifics of the most dominant decoherence mechanisms in each approach. Program goals include improving sensitivity of Rydberg electrometry, developing vector modality for atomic magnetometry with high sensitivity and accuracy, and demonstrating cavity quantum electrodynamics with atomic vapors.
If successful, SAVaNT advances will lay the foundations for new technologies that address important DoD needs, including applications that require low size, weight, and power (SWaP), high sensitivity electric and magnetic field measurements as well as applications that require scalable room-temperature quantum memories and interfaces.