Atomic Interferometry Test of Dark Energy

International audienceAtomic interferometry can be used to probe dark energy models coupled to matter. We consider the constraints coming from recent experimental results on models generalizing the inverse power law chameleons such as f(R) gravity in the large curvature regime, the environmentally dependent dilaton and symmetrons. Using the tomographic description of these models, we find that only symmetrons with masses smaller than the dark energy scale can be efficiently tested. In this regime, the resulting constraints complement the bounds from the Eötwash experiment and exclude small values of the symmetron self-coupling