Publications (7)
The US Program in Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Science: Contribution from the LIGO Laboratory
David Reitze, Rich Abbott, Carl Adams +181
Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 201…
Fabrication of superconducting MgB2 thin films by magnetron co-sputtering on (001) MgO substrates
Savio Fabretti, Patrick Thomas, Markus Meinert +1
We fabricated superconducting MgB2 thin films on (001) MgO substrates. The samples were prepared by magnetron rf and dc co-sputtering on heated substrates. They were annealed ex-si…
Squeezing the quantum noise of a gravitational-wave detector below the standard quantum limit
Wenxuan Jia, Victoria Xu, Kevin Kuns +168
Precision measurements of space and time, like those made by the detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), are often confronted with fundamental…
Anomalous Hall Effect in perpendicularly magnetized Mn(_{3-x})Ga thin films
Manuel Glas, Daniel Ebke, Inga-Mareen Imort +2
MnGa (x = 0.1, 0.4, 0.7) thin films on MgO and SrTiO substrates were investigated with magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to the film plane. An anomalous Hall-effect was…
Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO
Aidan F. Brooks, Gabriele Vajente, Hiro Yamamoto +198
Small, highly absorbing points are randomly present on the surfaces of the main interferometer optics in Advanced LIGO. The resulting nano-meter scale thermo-elastic deformations a…
Implementing TD3 to train a Neural Network to fly a Quadcopter through an FPV Gate
Patrick Thomas, Kevin Schroeder, Jonathan Black
Deep Reinforcement learning has shown to be a powerful tool for developing policies in environments where an optimal solution is unclear. In this paper, we attempt to apply Twin De…