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A recent proposal describes space based gravitational wave (GW) detection with optical lattice atomic clocks [Kolkowitz et. al., Phys. Rev. D 94, 124043 (2016)] [1]. Based on their setup, we propose a new measurement method for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-15 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

We consider a recent scheme of gravitational wave detection using atomic interferometers as inertial sensors, and reinvestigate its configuration using the concept of sensitivity functions. We show that such configuration can suppress noise…

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

Lunar-based gravitational-wave interferometry is a fascinating endeavor, and was proposed as a promising approach to bridge the observational gap between space-borne and ground-based detectors. In this work, we adopt the Fisher-matrix…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Xiaolin Zhang , Chengye Yu , Haoran Li , Sobhan Kazempour , Mingqiu Li , Sichun Sun

We describe an atom interferometric gravitational wave detector design that can operate in a resonant mode for increased sensitivity. By oscillating the positions of the atomic wavepackets, this resonant detection mode allows for coherently…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

We analyze the trajectories of three geostationary satellites forming the GEOstationary GRAvitational Wave Interferometer (GEOGRAWI)~\cite{tinto}, a space-based laser interferometer mission aiming to detect and study gravitational radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Massimo Tinto , Jose C. N. de Araujo , Helio K. Kuga , Marcio E. S. Alves , Odylio D. Aguiar

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a proposed space mission for the detection of gravitational waves. It consists of three drag-free satellites flying in a triangular constellation. A gravitational reference sensor is used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-08 Andreas Zoellner , Eric Hultgren , Ke-Xun Sun

A brief history and various themes of mid-frequency gravitational wave detection are presented more or less following historical order -- Laser Interferometry, Atom Interferometry (AI), Torsion Bar Antenna (TOBA), and Superconducting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-14 Wei-Tou Ni

After first reviewing the gravitational wave (GW) spectral classification. we discuss the sensitivities of GW detection in space aimed at low frequency band (100 nHz-100 mHz) and middle frequency band (100 mHz-10 Hz). The science goals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 Wei-Tou Ni

Twenty years ago, construction began on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Advanced LIGO, with a factor of ten better design sensitivity than Initial LIGO, will begin taking data this year, and should soon make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 Sheila E. Dwyer , Daniel Sigg , Stefan Ballmer , Lisa Barsotti , Nergis Mavalvala , Matthew Evans

Isolating ground-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories from environmental disturbances is one of the great challenges of the advanced detector era. In order to directly observe gravitational waves, the detector components…

The space mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), scheduled for launch in 2035, aims to detect gravitational wave (GW) signals in the milli-Hz band. In the context of ESA Voyage 2050 Call for new mission concepts, other frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Alice Perego , Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana , Silvia Toonen , Valeriya Korol

We present a new general design approach of a broad-band detector of gravitational radiation that relies on two atom interferometers separated by a distance L. In this scheme, only one arm and one laser will be used for operating the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Nan Yu , Massimo Tinto

Multimessenger astronomy incorporating gravitational radiation is a new and exciting field that will potentially provide significant results and exciting challenges in the near future. With advanced interferometric gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 N. L. Christensen

An enigmatic prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity is gravitational waves. With the observed decay in the orbit of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar agreeing within a fraction of a percent with the theoretically computed decay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-18 S. V. Dhurandhar

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

The field of gravitational-wave astronomy has been opened up by gravitational-wave observations made with interferometric detectors. This review surveys the current state-of-the-art in gravitational-wave detectors and data analysis methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-10 Sarah Caudill , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Claudia Lazzaro , Andrew Matas , Magdalena Sieniawska , Amber L. Stuver

The past four years have seen a scientific revolution through the birth of a new field: gravitational-wave astronomy. The first detection of gravitational waves---recognised by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics---provided unprecedented tests…

The Matter-Wave laser Interferometer Gravitation Antenna, MIGA, will be a hybrid instrument composed of a network of atom interferometers horizontally aligned and interrogated by the resonant field of an optical cavity. This detector will…

Laser frequency noise is a dominant noise background for the detection of gravitational waves using long-baseline optical interferometry. Amelioration of this noise requires near simultaneous strain measurements on more than one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran