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We show that when the gravitational field is treated quantum-mechanically, it induces fluctuations -- noise -- in the lengths of the arms of gravitational wave detectors. The characteristics of the noise depend on the quantum state of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-22 Maulik Parikh , Frank Wilczek , George Zahariade

The most promising concept for low frequency gravitational wave observatories are laser interferometric detectors in space. It is usually assumed that the noise floor for such a detector is dominated by optical shot noise in the signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 Simon Barke , Yan Wang , Juan Jose Esteban Delgado , Michael Tröbs , Gerhard Heinzel , Karsten Danzmann

We report correlations in underground seismic measurements with horizontal separations of several hundreds of meters to a few kilometers in the frequency range 0.01Hz to 40Hz. These seismic correlations could threaten science goals of…

The fast progress in improving the sensitivity of the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, we all have witnessed in the recent years, has propelled the scientific community to the point, when quantum behaviour of such immense measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Stefan L. Danilishin , Farid Ya. Khalili

The sensitivity of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and LCGT should be limited mostly by quantum noise with an expected technical progress to reduce seismic noise and thermal noise. Those detectors will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 K. Somiya , Y. Chen , S. Kawamura , N. Mio

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of precision measurement devices, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories and axion detectors. In the shot-noise-limited regime, these resonant detectors are subject to a trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiang Li , Jiri Smetana , Amit Singh Ubhi , Joe Bentley , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

The LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations have cataloged ten confident detections from binary black holes and one from binary neutron stars in their first two observing runs, which has already brought up an immense desire among the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ayatri Singha , Jan Harms , Stefan Hild

Accurately estimating the statistical properties of noise is important in data analysis for space-based gravitational wave detectors. Noise in different time-delay interferometry channels correlates with each other. Many studies often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Ya-Nan Li , Yi-Ming Hu , En-Kun Li

We present a noise estimation and subtraction algorithm capable of increasing the sensitivity of heterodyne laser interferometers by one order of magnitude. The heterodyne interferometer is specially designed for dynamic measurements of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-13 Yanqi Zhang , Adam Hines , Guillermo Valdes , Felipe Guzman

Matter-wave interferometry is highly susceptible to inertial acceleration noises arising from the vibration of the experimental apparatus. There are various methods for noise suppression. In this paper, we propose leveraging the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Meng-Zhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

Infrasonic and seismic waves are supposed to be the main contributors to the gravity-gradient noise (Newtonian noise) of the third generation subterranean gravitational-wave detectors. This noise will limit the sensitivity of the instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-02 Edit Fenyvesi , József Molnár , Sándor Czellár

Signal extraction out of background noise is a common challenge in high precision physics experiments, where the measurement output is often a continuous data stream. To improve the signal to noise ratio of the detection, witness sensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Gabriele Vajente , Yiwen Huang , Maximiliano Isi , Jenne C. Driggers , Jeffrey S. Kissel , Marek J. Szczepanczyk , Salvatore Vitale

In this paper, we present a successful implementation of a subtraction-noise projection method into a simple, simulated data analysis pipeline of a gravitational-wave search. We investigate the problem to reveal a weak stochastic background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Harms , Christoph Mahrdt , Markus Otto , Malte Priess

Fluctuations of the earth's gravity field are a major noise source for ground-based experiments investigating general relativity phenomena such as Gravitational Waves (GWs). Mass density variations caused by local seismic or atmospheric…

Photon shot noise, arising from the quantum-mechanical nature of the light, currently limits the sensitivity of all the gravitational wave observatories at frequencies above one kilohertz. We report a successful application of squeezed…

Density changes in the atmosphere produce a fluctuating gravity field that affect gravity strainmeters or gravity gradiometers used for the detection of gravitational-waves and for geophysical applications. This work addresses the impact of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Donatella Fiorucci , Jan Harms , Matteo Barsuglia , Irene Fiori , Federico Paoletti

An interferometer design that cancels all displacement noises of its test masses and maintains a gravitational-wave (GW) signal by combining multiple detector signals is called a displacement noise-free interferometer (DFI). The idea has…

The potential of compressed sensing for obtaining sparse time-frequency representations for gravitational wave data analysis is illustrated by comparison with existing methods, as regards i) shedding light on the fine structure of noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-16 Paolo Addesso , Maurizio Longo , Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta , Maria Principe , Innocenzo M. Pinto

Onboard electrostatic suspension inertial sensors are important applications for gravity satellites and space gravitational wave detection missions, and it is important to suppress noise in the measurement signal. Due to the complex…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 Zhilan Yang , Haoyue Zhang , Peng Xu , Ziren Luo

We examine the accuracy of estimation of parameters of the gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars that can be achieved from observations by Earth-based laser interferometers. We consider a model of the signal consisting of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Jaranowski , Andrzej Królak