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The fundamental features of the detection of non-stationary undulatory perturbations of metrics based on the interference effects are considered. The advantage of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in superconductors for these purposes in comparison…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Golovashkin , G. N. Izmailov , G. V. Kuleshova , A. M. Tzhovrebov , Tran Quoc Khanh

The direct detection of gravitational waves will provide valuable astrophysical information about many celestial objects. Also, it will be an important test to general relativity and other theories of gravitation. The gravitational wave…

The observed microwave background anisotropies in combination with the theory of quantum mechanically generated cosmological perturbations predict a well measurable amount of relic gravitational waves in the frequency intervals tested by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. P. Grishchuk

For each optical topology of an interferometric gravitational wave detector, quantum mechanics dictates a minimum optical power (the ``energetic quantum limit'') to achieve a given sensitivity. For standard topologies, when one seeks to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladimir B. Braginsky , Mikhail L. Gorodetsky , Farid Ya. Khalili , Kip S. Thorne

As laser interferometer gravitational wave (GW) detectors become quantum noise dominated, understanding the fundamental limit on measurement sensitivity imposed by quantum uncertainty is crucial to guide the search for further noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Belinda Pang , Yanbei Chen

We analyze the response of the gravitational wave detector to a scalar massive plane gravitational wave. We give the compact form of the response and discuss its angular and frequency characteristics. The derivations is carried out in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-06 Arkadiusz Błaut

We study modifications of gravitational wave observables, such as the wave amplitude and frequency, which follow from the quantum equivalence principle, and are expressed in terms of the inertial, gravitational and rest masses of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-26 Saurya Das , Mitja Fridman , Gaetano Lambiase

We investigate the use of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers for studies of the strong-field domain of QED. Interferometric measurements of phase velocity shifts induced by quantum fluctuations in magnetic fields can become a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-05 Babette Dobrich , Holger Gies

In this overview we discuss the prospects for a first detection of an isotropic gravitational wave background with earth-based interferometric detectors. Furthermore, we focus on how correlated noise sources could endanger such a detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Kamiel Janssens

A common misconception about laser interferometric detectors of gravitational waves purports that, because the wavelength of laser light and the length of an interferometer's arm are both stretched by a gravitational wave, no effect should…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Valerio Faraoni

We give a systematic theoretical treatment of linear quantum detectors used in modern high energy physics experiments, including dark matter cavity haloscopes, gravitational wave detectors, and impulsive mechanical sensors. We show how to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Jacob Beckey , Daniel Carney , Giacomo Marocco

A defining signature of classical systems is "in principle measurability" without disturbance: a feature manifestly violated by quantum systems. We describe a multi-interferometer experimental setup that can, in principle, reveal the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Farhan Hanif , Debarshi Das , Jonathan Halliwell , Dipankar Home , Anupam Mazumdar , Hendrik Ulbricht , Sougato Bose

Atom interferometers are powerful tools for both measurements in fundamental physics and inertial sensing applications. Their performance, however, has been limited by the available interrogation time of freely falling atoms in a…

We calculate quantum and classical Fisher informations for gravity sensors based on matterwave interference, and find that current Mach-Zehnder interferometry is not optimally extracting the full metrological potential of these sensors. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Michail Kritsotakis , Stuart S. Szigeti , Jacob A. Dunningham , Simon A. Haine

Gravitational-wave experiments with interferometers and with resonant masses can search for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves of cosmological origin. We review both experimental and theoretical aspects of the search for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michele Maggiore

Non-classical states of light find applications in enhancing the performance of optical interferometric experiments, with notable example of gravitational wave-detectors. Still, the presence of decoherence hinders significantly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , M. Jarzyna , J. Kolodynski

In this paper we discuss a new strategy for the detection of gravitational radiation likely emitted by cosmological gamma ray burst. Robust and conservative estimates lead to the conclusion that the uncorrelated superimposition of bursts of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Giulio Auriemma

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

This article provides an overview of the current state of machine learning in gravitational-wave research with interferometric detectors. Such applications are often still in their early days, but have reached sufficient popularity to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Elena Cuoco , Marco Cavaglià , Ik Siong Heng , David Keitel , Christopher Messenger

Understanding physical phenomena at the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains a major challenge in modern physics. While various experimental approaches have been proposed to probe quantum systems in curved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Eyuri Wakakuwa