3 papers
quant-ph2026
Observing and evading quantum back-action on a kilogram-scale oscillator
Begüm Kabagöz, Eric Oelker, Dhruva Ganapathy +203
Continuous quantum displacement measurements are fundamentally limited by a trade-off between readout imprecision and measurement back-action, constrained by the Heisenberg uncerta…
physics.optics2025
Finding the Maximal Contrast of Two Elliptical Gaussian Mode Beams with Aligned Ellipticities
Mark Zhu, Sina M. Koehlenbeck, Edgard Bonilla +1
Interferometric contrast is a key factor limiting the sensitivity of precision optical measurements, including the laser interferometers used in gravitational-wave detection. While…
gr-qc2025
Microseismic Noise Mitigation with Machine Learning for Advanced LIGO
Christina Reissel, Devin Lai, Shivanshu Dwivedi +9
The unprecedented sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which enables the detection of distant astrophysical sources, also renders the detectors h…