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The interaction, in the long--wavelength approximation, of normal and superconducting electromagnetic circuits with gravitational waves is investigated. We show that such interaction takes place by modifying the physical parameters R, L, C…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierluigi Fortini , Enrico Montanari , Antonello Ortolan , Gerhard Schaefer

We present a proposal for a gravitational wave detector, based on the excitation of an electromagnetic mode in a resonance cavity. The mode is excited due to the interaction between a large amplitude electromagnetic mode and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Brodin , M. Marklund

Stochastic gravitational wave background from the early Universe has a cut-off frequency close to 100 MHz, due to the horizon of the inflationary phase. To detect gravitational waves at such frequencies, resonant electromagnetic cavities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-07 Nicolas Herman , Léonard Lehoucq , André Fűzfa

The idea of searching for gravitational waves using cavities in strong magnetic fields has recently received significant attention. Specifically, discussions focus on cavities with relatively small volumes, which are currently employed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott

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

In their simplest form, bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices consist of a piezoelectric crystal between two electrodes that transduce the material's vibrations into electrical signals. They are adopted in frequency control and metrology, with…

This article aims at clarifying the situation about astrophysical sources that might be observed with haloscope experiments sensitive to gravitational waves in the 1-10 GHz band. The GrAHal setup is taken as a benchmark. We follow a very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Aurélien Barrau , Juan García-Bellido , Thierry Grenet , Killian Martineau

We present the first analysis using RADES-BabyIAXO cavities as detectors of high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs). In particular, we discuss two configurations for distinct frequency ranges of HFGWs: Cavity 1, mostly sensitive at a…

The LIGO observatories detect gravitational waves through monitoring changes in the detectors' length down to below $10^{-19}$\,$m/\sqrt{Hz}$ variation---a small fraction of the size of the atoms that make up the detector. To achieve this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Robert E. Colgan , K. Rainer Corley , Yenson Lau , Imre Bartos , John N. Wright , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka

We study the possibility of using matter wave interferometry techniques to build a gravitational wave detector. We derive the response function and find that it contains a term proportional to the derivative of the gravitational wave, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Foffa , Alice Gasparini , Michele Papucci , Riccardo Sturani

This article reviews current efforts and plans for gravitational-wave detection, the gravitational-wave sources that might be detected, and the information that the detectors might extract from the observed waves. Special attention is paid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kip S. Thorne

Direct detection of gravitational waves is opening a new window onto our universe. Here, we study the sensitivity to continuous-wave strain fields of a kg-scale optomechanical system formed by the acoustic motion of superfluid helium-4…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Singh , L. A. De Lorenzo , I. Pikovski , K. C. Schwab

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

For low-mass (frequency $\ll$ GHz) axions, dark matter detection experiments searching for an axion-photon-photon coupling generally have suppressed sensitivity, if they use a static background magnetic field. This geometric suppression can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Robert Lasenby

Affleck-Dine (AD) baryogenesis is compelling yet challenging to probe because of the high-energy physics involved. We demonstrate that this mechanism can be generically realized with low-energy new physics, without supersymmetry, while…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Yanou Cui , Anish Ghoshal , Pankaj Saha , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Using the construction of the Fermi frame, the field of a gravitational wave can be described in terms of gravito-electromagnetic fields that are transverse to the propagation direction and orthogonal to each other. In particular, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-13 Matteo Luca Ruggiero , Antonello Ortolan

Today, apart from some isolated R&D efforts, there are no gravitational wave (GW) experiments, yet which explore a large part of the vast frequency range above the LIGO/Virgo band. It is planned to establish an experiment at Deutsches…

The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges and gains expected in gravitational wave searches at…