A promising method for the measurement of the local acceleration of   gravity using Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in a vertical standing   wave
  An obvious determination of the acceleration of gravity g can be deduced from the measurement of the velocity of falling atoms using a pi-pi pulses sequence of stimulated Raman transitions. By using a vertical standing wave to hold atoms against gravity, we expect to improve the relative accuracy by increasing the upholding time in the gravity field and to minimize the systematic errors induced by inhomogeneous fields, owing to the very small spatial amplitude of the atomic center-of-mass wavepacket periodic motion. We also propose to use such an experimental setup nearby a Watt balance. By exploiting the g/h (h is the Planck constant) dependence of the Bloch frequency, this should provide a way to link a macroscopic mass to an atomic mass. 
Pierre Clad\'e (LKB - Jussieu), Sa\"ida Guellati-Kh\'elifa (BNM-INM),   Catherine Schwob (LKB - Jussieu), Fran\c{c}ois Nez (...