A Crystal-based Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2017-08-23 v3 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Atomic Physics
Abstract
It is shown that atom interferometry allows for the construction of MIGO, the Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory. MIGOs of the same sensitivity as LIGO or LISA are expected to be orders of magnitude smaller than either one. A design for MIGO using crystalline diffraction gratings is introduced, and its sensitivity is calculated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0312100,
title = {A Crystal-based Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory},
author = {Raymond Y. Chiao and A. D. Speliotopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0312100},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Nineteen pages with two figures. Written using RevTeX. To appear in, "Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics", ed. by P. Chen (World Scientific, Singapore, 2004). Typographical errors corrected and acknowledgements added