What do gravitational wave detectors say about polymer quantum effects?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2022-11-29 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
We compute the expected response of detector arms of gravitational wave observatories to polymerized gravitational waves. The mathematical and theoretical features of these waves were discussed in our previous work. In the present manuscript, we find both perturbative analytical, and full nonperturbative numerical solutions to the equations of motion of the detector arms using the method of geodesic deviations. These results show the modifications to both frequency and amplitude of the signal measured by the detector. Furthermore, we study the detectability of these signals in LISA by analyzing the modes in the frequency space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.09739,
title = {What do gravitational wave detectors say about polymer quantum effects?},
author = {Angel Garcia-Chung and Matthew F. Carney and James B. Mertens and Aliasghar Parvizi and Saeed Rastgoo and Yaser Tavakoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09739},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
25 pages, 5 figures, v2: a few new comments added, matches the JCAP published version