`Seeing' the quantum ripples of spacetime
Abstract
We propose a novel way of detecting gravitons using emission of photons from charged array of quantum harmonic oscillators placed inside of a cavity while the cavity is being pumped with low frequency photons. We observe that when the detector is in its ground state, a single graviton is absorbed by the detector while it jumps a single energy level by simultaneously emitting a photon. We also observe that while the detector de-excites from an higher energy level, it spontaneously emits a high frequency graviton, by absorbing a single photon. This analytical outcome encourages us to propose a very simple tabletop graviton detector model as the transition probabilities can be significantly enhanced by pumping photons in the initial state of the system. This mechanism gives us a physical way to `visualize' the effect of gravitons with a relativistic system. We also show that Dyson's original argument on the non-detectability of gravitons can be completely circumvented using our proposed graviton detector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.11474,
title = {`Seeing' the quantum ripples of spacetime},
author = {Soham Sen and Vlatko Vedral},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11474},
year = {2026}
}
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8 pages LATEX, Comments are welcome. Om Thakur Ma