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Detecting gravitational waves with frequencies higher than 10 kHz requires new strategies. In previous papers, we proposed magnon gravitational wave detectors and gave the first limit on GHz gravitational waves by reinterpreting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-07 Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO has impressively launched the novel field of gravitational astronomy and it allowed us to glimpse at exciting objects we could so far only speculate about. Further sensitivity…

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

Quantum sensors exploiting matter waves interferometry promise to realize a new generation of Gravitational Wave detectors. The intrinsic stability of specific atomic energy levels makes atom interferometers and clocks ideal candidates to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Andrea Bertoldi , Philippe Bouyer , Benjamin Canuel

Quantum fluctuation of light limits the sensitivity of advanced laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. It is one of the principal obstacles on the way towards the next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. The envisioned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Stefan L. Danilishin , Farid Ya. Khalili , Haixing Miao

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, currently in their preparatory phase, have the potential to significantly improve our understanding of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Michael Ebersold , Tania Regimbau , Nelson Christensen

A second generation of gravitational wave detectors will soon come online with the objective of measuring for the first time the tiny gravitational signal from the coalescence of black hole and/or neutron star binaries. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-26 Eric Chassande-Mottin , Eric Lebigot , Hugo Magaldi , Eve Chase , Archana Pai , Gayathri V , Gabriele Vedovato

A universal amplification scheme of ultra-small phase based on weak measurements is given and a weak measurements amplification based laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (WMA-LIGO) is suggested. The WMA-LIGO has potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

Space-based gravitational wave interferometers are sensitive to the galactic population of ultra-compact binaries. An important subset of the ultra-compact binary population are those stars that can be individually resolved by both…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tyson B. Littenberg , Shane L. Larson , Gijs Nelemans , Neil J. Cornish

Sensitivity of future laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors can be improved using squeezed light with frequency-dependent squeeze angle and/or amplitude, which can be created using additional so-called filter cavities. Here we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-20 Farit Ya. Khalili

Certain alternative theories of gravity predict that gravitational waves will disperse as they travel from the source to the observer. The recent binary black hole observations by Advanced-LIGO have set limits on a modified dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-05 Anuradha Samajdar , K. G. Arun

The ongoing global effort to detect gravitational waves continues to push the limits of precision measurement while aiming to provide a new tool for understanding both astrophysics and fundamental physics. Squeezed states of light offer a…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. Evans , L. Barsotti , J. Harms , P. Kwee , H. Miao

Around the globe several observatories are seeking the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These waves are predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity [Einstein, A., Annalen der Physik 49, 769-822 (1916)] and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Interferometric gravitational wave detectors are expected to be limited by shot noise at some frequencies. We experimentally demonstrate that a power recycled Michelson with squeezed light injected into the dark port can overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirk McKenzie , Ben C. Buchler , Daniel A. Shaddock , Ping Koy Lam , David E. McClelland

The goal of this talk is to give an overview of the current status of the development of the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer ground based gravitational wave (GW) detectors and of their foreseen scientific goals. These detectors will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Matteo Di Giovanni

Detections of gravitational waves (GW) in the frequency band 35 Hz to 500 Hz have led to the birth of GW astronomy. Expected signals above 500 Hz, such as the quasinormal modes of lower mass black holes and neutron star mergers signatures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Michael Page , Jiayi Qin , James La Fontaine , Chunnong Zhao , David Blair

A novel method for extending frequency frontier in gravitational wave observations is proposed. It is shown that gravitational waves can excite a magnon. Thus, gravitational waves can be probed by a graviton-magnon detector which measures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Asuka Ito , Tomonori Ikeda , Kentaro Miuchi , Jiro Soda

In the last decade, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European Virgo observatory have opened a new observational window on the universe. These cavity-enhanced laser interferometers sense spacetime…

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

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford $10 \text{m}$ atom interferometer presently under construction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-22 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran