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Large-Scale Atom Interferometry for Fundamental Physics

Atom interferometers measure quantum interference patterns in the wave functions of cold atoms that follow superpositions of different space-time trajectories. These can be sensitive to phase shifts induced by fundamental physics processes…

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Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves

Gravitational wave detectors are already operating at interesting sensitivity levels, and they have an upgrade path that should result in secure detections by 2014. We review the physics of gravitational waves, how they interact with…

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Quantum-Dense Metrology

Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

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Atom interferometry with the Sr optical clock transition

We report on the realization of a matter-wave interferometer based on single-photon interaction on the ultra-narrow optical clock transition of strontium atoms. We experimentally demonstrated its operation as a gravimeter and as a gravity…

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Exposing Gravitational Waves below the Quantum Shot Noise

The sensitivities of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are limited by quantum shot noise at a few hundred Hertz and above. Nonetheless, one can use a quantum-correlation technique proposed by Martynov, et al. [Phys. Rev. A 95,…

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Accelerometer using atomic waves for space applications

The techniques of laser cooling combined with atom interferometry make possible the realization of very sensitive and accurate inertial sensors like gyroscopes or accelerometers. Besides earth-based developments, the use of these techniques…

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Design of a speed meter interferometer proof-of-principle experiment

The second generation of large scale interferometric gravitational wave detectors will be limited by quantum noise over a wide frequency range in their detection band. Further sensitivity improvements for future upgrades or new detectors…

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Probing GHz Gravitational Waves with Graviton-magnon Resonance

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…

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A Three-Dimensional Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Detector

The gravitational wave (GW) has opened a new window to the universe beyond the electromagnetic spectrum. Since 2015, dozens of GW events have been caught by the ground-based GW detectors through laser interferometry. However, all the…

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Quantum-Inspired Gravitational Wave Detector

A new gravitational-wave detector, which is devised based on quantum weak measurement amplification, is introduced and shown has the potential to significantly improve the strain sensitivity of gravitational-wave detection.

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Quantum Frequency Interferometry: with applications ranging from gravitational wave detection to dark matter searches

We introduce a quantum interferometric scheme that uses states that are sharp in frequency and delocalized in position. The states are frequency modes of a quantum field that is trapped at all times in a finite volume potential, such as a…

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Testing quantum physics in space using high-mass matter-wave interferometry

Quantum superposition is central to quantum theory but challenges our concepts of reality and spacetime when applied to macroscopic objects like Schr\"odinger's cat. For that reason, it has been a long-standing question whether quantum…

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Technologies for the ELGAR large scale atom interferometer array

We proposed the European Laboratory for Gravitation and Atom-interferometric Research (ELGAR), an array of atom gradiometers aimed at studying space-time and gravitation with the primary goal of observing gravitational waves (GWs) in the…

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The quantum optics of gravitational waves

By utilizing quantum optics techniques, we examine the characteristics of a quantum gravitational wave (GW) signature at interferometers. In particular, we study the problem by analyzing the equations of motion of a GW interacting with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Luca Abrahao , Francesco Coradeschi , Antonia Micol Frassino , Thiago Guerreiro , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Enrico Junior Schioppa

Detecting high-frequency gravitational waves with optically-levitated sensors

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Asimina Arvanitaki , Andrew A. Geraci

Sources of gravitational radiation and prospects for their detection

In the coming decade, the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO network of ground-based kilometer-scale laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors will open up a new astronomical window on the Universe: gravitational waves in the frequency band 10 to 10^4…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eanna E Flanagan

Quantum interactions between a laser interferometer and gravitational waves

LIGO's detection of gravitational waves marks a first step in measurable effects of general relativity on quantum matter. In its current operation, laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors are already quantum limited at high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Belinda Pang , Yanbei Chen

Searching for gravitational-wave bursts with space-borne detectors

The millihertz gravitational wave band is expected to be opened by space-borne detectors like TianQin. Various mechanisms can produce short outbursts of gravitational waves, whose actual waveform can be hard to model. In order to identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Zheng Wu , Hui-Min Fan , Yi-Ming Hu , Ik Siong Heng

Gravitational wave detection with single-laser atom interferometers

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