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Quantum computational devices, currently under development, have the potential to accelerate data analysis techniques beyond the ability of any classical algorithm. We propose the application of a quantum algorithm for the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Sijia Gao , Fergus Hayes , Sarah Croke , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

Gravitational wave astronomy is rapidly advancing with the development of new observatories, leading to an increasing volume and complexity of data. This trend places growing pressure on classical data analysis methods and motivates the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Fangzhou Guo , Jibo He

This study explores the integration of quantum algorithms, specifically Grover's algorithm, with quantum metrology to enhance the efficiency and sensitivity of gravitational-wave detection. By combining quantum matched filtering with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Vaidik A Sharma

The speedup of heavy numerical tasks by quantum computing is now actively investigated in various fields including data analysis in physics and astronomy. In this paper, we propose a new quantum algorithm for matched filtering in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Koichi Miyamoto , Gonzalo Morrás , Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Savvas Nesseris

Matched filtering is a common method for detecting gravitational waves. However, the computational costs of searching large template banks limit the efficiency of classical algorithms when searching for massive black hole binary (MBHB)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Fangzhou Guo , Jibo He

State of the art quantum computers have very limited applicability for accurate calculations. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of qubit-based matched filtering for a detection of the gravitational-wave signal from a…

We describe an efficient method of matched filtering over long (greater than 1 day) time baselines starting from Fourier transforms of short durations (roughly 30 minutes) of the data stream. This method plays a crucial role in the search…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. R. Williams , B. F. Schutz

After the first detection of a gravitational wave in 2015, the number of successes achieved by this innovative way of looking through the universe has not stopped growing. However, the current techniques for analyzing this type of events…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-11 Gabriel Escrig , Roberto Campos , Pablo A. M. Casares , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Solving optimisation problems is a promising near-term application of quantum computers. Quantum variational algorithms leverage quantum superposition and entanglement to optimise over exponentially large solution spaces using an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Edric Matwiejew , Jason Pye , Jingbo B. Wang

We derive a lower bound on the sensitivity of generic mechanical and electromagnetic gravitational wave detectors. We consider both classical and quantum detection schemes, although we focus on the former. Our results allow for a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis

Gravitational wave searches rely on a combination of methods, including matched filtering, coherent analyses, and more recent machine learning based pipelines. For compact binary coalescences, where signals originate from the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Lorenzo Mobilia , Tito Dal Canton , Gianluca Maria Guidi

We report on the construction of a deep convolutional neural network that can reproduce the sensitivity of a matched-filtering search for binary black hole gravitational-wave signals. The standard method for the detection of well modeled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Hunter Gabbard , Michael Williams , Fergus Hayes , Chris Messenger

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

This paper describes an incoherent method to search for continuous gravitational waves based on the Hough transform, a well known technique used for detecting patterns in digital images. We apply the Hough transform to detect patterns in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Badri Krishnan , Alicia M. Sintes , M. A. Papa , Bernard F. Schutz , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba

Along with the development of interferometric gravitational wave detector, we enter into an epoch of gravitational wave astronomy, which will open a brand new window for astrophysics to observe our universe. Almost all of the data analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-29 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu

It is well known that matched filtering techniques cannot be applied for searching extensive parameter space volumes for continuous gravitational wave signals. This is the reason why alternative strategies are being pursued. Hierarchical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Papa , B. F. Schutz , A. M. Sintes

This thesis investigates algorithms regarding their applicability for highly nonlinear model fitting on big datasets. Various mathematical methods are presented with which a model fit using the least squares criterion is possible. Special…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Robin Geyer

The matched filtering technique is used to search for gravitational wave signals of a known form in the data taken by ground-based detectors. However, the analyzed data contains a number of artifacts arising from various broad-band…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Babak , H. Grote , M. Hewitson , H. Lück , K. A. Strain

Searches for known waveforms in gravitational wave detector data are often done using matched filtering. When used on real instrumental data, matched filtering often does not perform as well as might be expected, because non-stationary and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-18 Bruce Allen
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