Massive quantum systems as interfaces of quantum mechanics and gravity

S Bose, I Fuentes, AA Geraci, SM Khan, S Qvarfort… - Reviews of Modern …, 2025 - APS
The traditional view from particle physics is that quantum-gravity effects should become
detectable only at extremely high energies and small length scales. Owing to the significant …

Searching for high-frequency gravitational waves with phonons

Y Kahn, J Schütte-Engel, T Trickle - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum at frequencies above a kHz is a largely unexplored
frontier. We show that detectors with sensitivity to single-phonon excitations in crystal targets …

Ultrahigh frequency primordial gravitational waves beyond the kHz: The case of cosmic strings

G Servant, P Simakachorn - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) of primordial origin that would
manifest only at ultrahigh frequencies, from kilohertz to 100 gigahertz, and leave no signal at …

Inverse Gertsenshtein effect as a probe of high-frequency gravitational waves

Y He, SK Giri, R Sharma, S Mtchedlidze… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We apply the inverse Gertsenshtein effect, ie, the graviton-photon conversion in the
presence of a magnetic field, to constrain high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) …

Testing whether gravity acts as a quantum entity when measured

F Hanif, D Das, J Halliwell, D Home, A Mazumdar… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
A defining signature of classical systems is “in principle measurability” without disturbance: a
feature manifestly violated by quantum systems. We describe a multi-interferometer …

The quantum optics of gravitational waves

L Abrahao, F Coradeschi, AM Frassino… - … and quantum gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
By utilizing quantum optics techniques, we examine the characteristics of a quantum
gravitational wave (GW) signature at interferometers. In particular, we study the problem by …

Truly relativistic gravity mediated entanglement protocol using superpositions of rotational energies

G Higgins, A Di Biagio, M Christodoulou - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Experimental proposals for testing quantum gravity-induced entanglement of masses
(QGEM) typically involve two interacting masses which are each in a spatial superposition …

Detecting kHz gravitons from a neutron star merger with a multi-mode resonant bar

G Tobar, I Pikovski, ME Tobar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.16898, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose a multi-mode bar consisting of mass elements of decreasing size for the direct
detection of stimulated absorption of up to kHz gravitons from a neutron star merger and post …

Comments on graviton detection

D Carney - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.00094, 2024 - arxiv.org
It is possible to make a detector which clicks after absorbing a single graviton. Similarly, it is
possible to make a gravitational wave detector which can see the quantum noise induced by …

[HTML][HTML] Upconversion of phonon modes into microwave photons in a lithium niobate bulk acoustic wave resonator coupled to a microwave cavity

S Parashar, WM Campbell, J Bourhill, E Ivanov… - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The coupling between acoustic vibrations in a lithium niobate bulk acoustic wave resonator
and microwave photons of a re-entrant microwave cavity was investigated at a temperature …