Manuel Rodrigues's research while affiliated with Université Paris-Saclay and other places

... Precision sensing with mechanical oscillators has a long history in science and technology, and continues to be an active area of research in many fronts. These include detection of gravitational waves [1], exploration of quantum mechanics and its potential extensions at macro scales [2][3][4][5][6], tests of gravity at micro scales [7][8][9] or at relativistic speeds [10], and precision determination of Newton's gravitational constant [11] just to name a few. Recently, milligram-scale optomechanical systems [12][13][14][15][16] have been attracting heightened attention as promising candidates for table-top fundamental gravity and quantum mechanics experiments, since milligram-scale is expected to simultaneously allow for good optical control and large gravitational interactions [17]. ...

... 4). Recently, a 10 −15 level of accuracy was achieved by a classical experiment within a satellite, capitalizing on the advantages of operating in space for precision UFF tests 24 . Owing to the fundamental differences in the description of classical and quantum motion, combining these two research paths by studying several quantum test masses in space is a long-standing goal that has led to a variety of proposed missions 9,25-28 and a terrestrial validation in atmospheric flight 29 . ...

... 7,8 However, there have been no reports on how to design the working mode of the ESA. [9][10][11][12] Based on the working principle of the ESA, the design of the working mode is introduced in this paper to ensure acquisition and high-precision linear measurement. In addition, the ground and flight test results of a typical ESA verify the rationality of its working mode design. ...

... MICROSCOPE is simple in its principle but each component of the mission has been pushed to its limits given the external constraints (e.g. size of the satellite and global cost); for a more detailed presentation of MICROSCOPE the reader is referred to other papers of this volume (references [34,37,38,[43][44][45][46][47][48]). ...

... General relativity (GR; see Table 1 for a list of abbreviations and acronyms) has been validated at least for local scales, such as the solar system, among others [1,2]. To reach this, parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) techniques and the weak equivalence principle (WEP, equalising the inertial and gravitational masses) are usually considered [3,4]. ...

... Comparing the upper and lower panels on the left of Fig. 2 highlights the challenge of searching for a ULDM signal in the time domain with ASN-limited measurements. The magnitude of the ULDM phase difference is substantially smaller than from ASN, even for d m e ¼ 1, which is orders of magnitude larger than current constraints on this parameter [79]. ...

... In recent years, drag-free spacecraft has been applied in an increasing number of fields, and an incrementally increasing number of researchers have been attracted to carrying out this work, thanks to the project Observations of the Earth's Gravity (OEG) [1][2][3], the Verification of Basic Theory (VBT) [4][5][6], and the Detection of Gravitational Wave (DGW) [7][8][9]. The concept of drag-free was first introduced by Lange B in the 1960s [10]; then, it was realized on TRIAD I, which was used to improve the precision of orbit determination [11]. ...

... In Ref. [25] it is concluded that glitches must be removed from the data because it is impossible to accurately model their effects. In the time series of every session glitches are identified as all outliers above 4.5 σ from the moving average, some time is allowed before and after each outlier to account for transient effects, and all data points identified in this way are removed, up to 35% in SUEP and up to 40% in SUREF. ...

... The existence of a long-range fifth force can have profound implications in DM searches, such as the creation of DM evaporation barriers in celestial bodies [35]. Various experiments searching for weak equivalence principle violating forces have put constraints on specific models, such as coupling through massive scalars [36,37]. Here we consider a more general scenario without the assumption of the specific microscopic interaction. ...