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Quantum Gravity Background in Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-05-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the effects of geontropic vacuum fluctuations in quantum gravity on next-generation terrestrial gravitational wave detectors. If the VZ effect proposed in Ref. [1], as modeled in Refs. [2, 3], appears in the upcoming GQuEST experiment, we show that it will be a large background for astrophysical gravitational wave searches in observatories like Cosmic Explorer and the Einstein Telescope.

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@article{arxiv.2305.11224,
  title  = {Quantum Gravity Background in Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors},
  author = {Mathew W. Bub and Yanbei Chen and Yufeng Du and Dongjun Li and Yiwen Zhang and Kathryn M. Zurek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11224},
  year   = {2023}
}

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19 pages, 9 figures

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