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A comparison between matter wave and light wave interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-12-10 v1

Abstract

We calculate and compare the response of light wave interferometers and matter wave interferometers to gravitational waves. We find that metric matter wave interferometers will not challenge kilometric light wave interferometers such as Virgo or LIGO, but could be a good candidate for the detection of very low frequency gravitational waves.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0609075,
  title  = {A comparison between matter wave and light wave interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves},
  author = {Pacôme Delva and Marie-Christine Angonin and Philippe Tourrenc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0609075},
  year   = {2009}
}