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We show that gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers may be better distinguished from instrumental noise transients by using Bayesian models that look for signal coherence across a detector network. This can be achieved even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-30 Maximiliano Isi , Rory Smith , Salvatore Vitale , T. J. Massinger , Jonah Kanner , Avi Vajpeyi

Recently, the configuration using atomic interferometers (AIs) had been suggested for the detection of gravitational waves. A new AI with some additional laser pulses for implementing large momentum transfer was also put forward, in order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Biao Tang , Baocheng Zhang , Lin Zhou , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

The observation of gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers offers insights into properties of extreme nuclear matter. However, their high-frequency signals in the kHz range are often masked by quantum noise of the laser light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-07 Niels Böttner , Joe Bentley , Roman Schnabel , Mikhail Korobko

We consider a class of proposed gravitational wave detectors based on multiple atomic interferometers separated by large baselines and referenced by common laser systems. We compute the sensitivity limits of these detectors due to intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe

Gravitational wave detectors (GWDs), which have brought about a new era in astronomy, have reached such a level of maturity that further improvement necessitates quantum-noise-evading techniques. Numerous proposals to this end have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-26 Emil Zeuthen , Eugene S. Polzik , Farid Ya. Khalili

High precision interferometers are the building blocks of precision metrology and the ultimate interferometric sensitivity is limited by the quantum noise. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact quantum interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaojie Zuo , Zhihui Yan , Yanni Feng , Jingxu Ma , Xiaojun Jia , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e., they will be collected at times when only one detector in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Marco Cavaglia , Sergio Gaudio , Travis Hansen , Kai Staats , Marek Szczepanczyk , Michele Zanolin

The sensitivity achievable by a pair of VIRGO detectors to stochastic and isotropic gravitational wave backgrounds of cosmological origin is discussed in view of the development of a second VIRGO interferometer. We describe a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Babusci , M. Giovannini

A key issue in developing pendular Fabry-Perot interferometers as very accurate displacement measurement devices, is the noise level. The Fabry-Perot pendulums are the most promising device to detect gravitational waves, and therefore the…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-01 Paolo Addesso , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

The quantum nature of the electromagnetic field imposes a fundamental limit on the sensitivity of optical precision measurements such as spectroscopy, microscopy, and interferometry. The so-called quantum limit is set by the zero-point…

Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are based on high precision laser interferometry. One promising technique to improve the detector's sensitivity is the detuning of an optical cavity, which enhances the signal at around certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 Shinichiro Ueda , Nana Saito , Daniel Friedrich , Yoichi Aso , Kentaro Somiya

One of the noise sources that currently limits gravitational wave (GW) detectors comes from the quantum nature of the light causing uncertain amplitude and phase. Phase uncertainty limits the precision of an interferometric measurement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Nancy Aggarwal

Fluctuations in the local Newtonian gravitational field present a limit to high precision measurements, including searches for gravitational waves using laser interferometers. In this work, we present a model of this perturbing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-21 Jennifer C. Driggers , Jan Harms , Rana X. Adhikari

The second generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors are quickly approaching their design sensitivity. For the first time these detectors will become limited by quantum back-action noise. Several back-action evasion…

It is expected that interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO \cite{Barish99} will be eventually limited by fundamental noise sources like shot noise and Brownian motion, as well as by seismic noise. In the commissioning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriela Gonzalez

We analyze and discuss the quantum noise in signal-recycled laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors, such as Advanced LIGO, using a heterodyne readout scheme and taking into account the optomechanical dynamics. Contrary to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Nergis Mavalvala

This study explores the integration of quantum algorithms, specifically Grover's algorithm, with quantum metrology to enhance the efficiency and sensitivity of gravitational-wave detection. By combining quantum matched filtering with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Vaidik A Sharma

Gravitational waves have predominantly been detected using interferometric techniques, with standard approaches limited to 10 kHz and with modern advancements extending this bound to 300 kHz. To explore the largely uncharted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Eduard Atonga , Ramy Aboushelbaya , Peter A. Norreys

We compare two advanced designs for gravitational-wave antennas in terms of their ability to detect two possible gravitational wave sources. Spherical, resonant mass antennas and interferometers incorporating resonant sideband extraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Gregory M Harry , Janet L Houser , Kenneth A Strain

Fundamental sensitivity of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector increases with increase of the optical power which, in turn, limited because of the opto-mechanical parametric instabilities of the interferometer. We propose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrey B. Matsko , Mikhail V. Poplavskiy , Hiroaki Yamamoto , Sergey P. Vyatchanin