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The ultralight axion with mass around $10^{-22}$ eV is known as a candidate of dark matter. A peculiar feature of the ultralight axion is oscillating pressure in time, which produces oscillation of gravitational potentials. Since the solar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-09 Arata Aoki , Jiro Soda

Adaptive optics enables the deployment of interferometer-based spectroscopy without the need for moving parts necessary for scanning the interferometer arms. Here, we employ a Michelson Interferometer in conjunction with a Spatial Light…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-05 Jesneil Lauren Lewis , Ayan Banerjee

Interference is a powerful tool for measuring and control. In M\"ossbauer science, interference effects are essential to most applications, due to the coherent scattering nature. However, M\"ossbauer interferometry remains challenging, due…

Diverse applications in photonics and microwave engineering require a means of measurement of the instantaneous frequency of a signal. A photonic implementation typically applies an interferometer equipped with three or more output ports to…

Remarkable progress can be observed in recent years in the controlled emission, guiding and detection of coherent, free electrons. Those methods were applied in matter wave interferometers leading to high phase sensitivities and novel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Andreas Pooch , Michael Seidling , Moritz Layer , Alexander Rembold , Alexander Stibor

Rindler's acceleration-induced partitioning of spacetime leads to a nature-given interferometer. It accomodates quantum mechanical and wave mechanical processes in spacetime which in (Euclidean) optics correspond to wave processes in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Ulrich H. Gerlach

In 2015 the first observation of gravitational waves marked a breakthrough in astrophysics, and in technological research and development. The discovery of a gravitational-wave signal from the collision of two black holes, a billion…

Despite being the dominant force of nature on large scales, gravity remains relatively elusive to experimental measurement. Many questions remain, such as its behavior at small scales or its role in phenomena ascribed to dark matter and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Cristian D. Panda , Matthew J. Tao , Miguel Ceja , Holger Müller

A metric-field approach to gravitation is presented. It is based on an idea of dependency of space-time properties on measuring instruments. Some bimetric equations that realize this idea are considered. They were tested by the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. V. Verozub

We report on a compact, highly sensitive all-fiber accelerometer suitable for low frequency and low amplitude vibration sensing. The sensing elements in the device are two short segments of strongly coupled asymmetric multicore fiber (MCF)…

The study of microsystems and the development of nanotechnologies require new techniques to measure piconewton and femtonewton forces at microscopic and nanoscopic scales. Amongst the challenges, there is the need to deal with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-22 Thomas Brettschneider , Giovanni Volpe , Laurent Helden , Jan Wehr , Clemens Bechinger

The dispersion in the speed of gravitational waves is a novel way to test the general theory of relativity and understand whether the origin of cosmic acceleration is due to any alternative theory of gravity. Several alternative theories of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Adith Praveen , Panchajanya Dey , Suvodip Mukherjee

EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and 410 GHz and was the first to use a kilo-pixel array of…

Using light as a probe to detect a mechanical motion is one of the most successful experimental approaches in physics. The history of mechanical sensing based on the reflection, refraction and scattering of light dates back to the 16th…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Yang Liu , Pengfei Lu , Xinxin Rao , Hao Wu , Kunxu Wang , Qifeng Lao , Ji Bian , Feng Zhu , Le Luo

When subjected to monochromatic incident light a nanoparticle will emit light which then interferes with the incident beam. With sufficient contrast and sufficiently close to the particle this interference pattern may be recorded with a…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-26 T. G. Myers , H. Ribera , W. S. Bacsa

We propose a new implementation of a quantum speed meter QND measurement scheme. It employs two independent optical readouts of the interferometer test masses, featuring strongly different values of the bandwidths $\gamma_{1,2}$ and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 E. Knyazev , S. Danilishin , S. Hild , F. Ya. Khalili

A laser interferometric detector of gravitational waves is studied and a complete solution (to first order in the metric perturbation) of the coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions for the light beams is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

Quantum nonlocality would naturally fit into a version of relativity with a preferred reference system. However, acceptance of this idea has traditionally required experimental evidence. Namely, detecting in laboratory a small angular…

General Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Maurizio Consoli , Alessandro Pluchino

The basic constituent of interferometric gravitational wave detectors -- the test mass to test mass interferometric link -- behaves as a differential dynamometer measuring effective differential forces, comprising an integrated measure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-24 Giuseppe Congedo