http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04468
We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gravitational wave detector, and study its sensitivity by optimizing the properties of the condensate and the measurement duration. We show that detecting kilohertz gravitational waves is limited by current experimental techniques in squeezing BEC phonons, while at higher frequencies, decoherence due to phonon-phonon interaction gives the main limitation. Future improvements in technology to squeeze BEC states can make them competitive detectors for gravitational waves of astrophysical and/or cosmological origin.
M. Robbins, N. Afshordi and R. Mann
Wed, 14 Nov 18
44/75
Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures