aisim 0.5.5

Simulations for light-pulse atom interferometry

AISim ‒ Simulations for light-pulse atom interferometry

AISim is a Python package for simulating light-pulse atom interferometers.

It uses dedicated objects to model the laser beams, the atomic ensemble and the detection system and store experimental parameters in a neat way. After you define these objects you can use built-in propagators to simulate internal and external degrees of freedom of cold atoms.

Installation

The latest tagged release can installed via pip: :

pip install aisim

Alternatively, if you plan to make changes to the code, use

git clone https://github.com/bleykauf/aisim.git
cd aisim
python setup.py develop

Usage

For basic usage and code reference, see the documentation.

Examples

Some examples are provided in the form of Jupyter notebooks:

• Effect of wavefront aberrations in atom interferometry
• Rabi oscillations with a Gaussian beam and thermal atoms

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. If you want to help, check out our contributions guide.

Authors

• Bastian Leykauf (https://github.com/bleykauf)
• Sascha Vowe (https://github.com/savowe)

License

AISim is licensed under GPL 3.0.