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Interaction of Gravitational Waves with Superconductors
NA Inan, JJ Thompson, RY Chiao
Applying the Helmholtz Decomposition theorem to linearized General Relativity leads to a gauge-invariant formulation where the transverse-traceless part of the metric perturbation…
Dynamical Casimir effect and the possibility of laser-like generation of gravitational radiation
R. Y. Chiao, J. S. Sharping, L. A. Martinez +4
In this paper, we address the question as to whether or not measurable sources for gravitational waves could possibly be made in the laboratory. Based on an analogy of the dynamica…
"Instantaneous superluminality" in a bimetallic wire consisting of a superconducting aluminum wire plated with a thick copper covering
R. Y. Chiao
Maxwell's equations applied to a superconducting wire (aluminum) covered with a thick nonsuperconducting sheath (copper), in combination with the superfluid velocity equation for C…
Test of the superluminality of supercurrents induced by a local electric field in a superconducting-core coaxial cable
R. Y. Chiao
An experiment is proposed to test the prediction that induced supercurrents in a superconductor can become superluminal, as was predicted in the paper by S.J. Minter, K. Wegter-McN…
Figure "8" gravitational-wave antenna using a superconducting-core coaxial cable: Continuity equation and its superluminal consequences
R. Y. Chiao
A novel gravitational-wave antenna is proposed based on the prediction that supercurrents induced by gravitational waves in a superconductor that is bent into the shape of a figure…
New directions for gravitational wave physics via "Millikan oil drops"
Raymond Y. Chiao
"Millikan oil drops" are drops of superfluid helium coated with electrons, and levitated in a strong, inhomogeneous magnetic field. When the temperature of the system becomes very…
Laboratory-Scale Superconducting Mirrors for Gravitational Microwaves
Raymond Chiao, Stephen Minter, Kirk Wegter-McNelly
When a gravitational wave at microwave frequencies impinges on a thin, type I superconducting film, the radical delocalization of the film's negatively charged Cooper pairs, which…
Do Mirrors for Gravitational Waves Exist?
Stephen J. Minter, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Raymond Y. Chiao
Thin superconducting films are predicted to be highly reflective mirrors for gravitational waves at microwave frequencies. The quantum mechanical non-localizability of the negative…
Generation and detection of gravitational waves at microwave frequencies by means of a superconducting two-body system
Raymond Y. Chiao
The 2-body system of a superconducting sphere levitated in the magnetic field generated by a persistent current in a superconducting ring, can possibly convert gravitational waves…
"Millikan oil drops" as quantum transducers between electromagnetic and gravitational radiation
Raymond Y. Chiao
Pairs of Planck-mass-scale drops of superfluid helium coated by electrons (i.e., "Millikan oil drops"), when levitated in the presence of strong magnetic fields and at low temperat…
New directions for gravity-wave physics via "Millikan oil drops"
Raymond Y. Chiao
Pairs of Planck-mass--scale drops of superfluid helium coated by electrons (i.e., "Millikan oil drops"), when levitated in the presence of strong magnetic fields and at low tempera…
Proposed observations of gravity waves from the early Universe via "Millikan oil drops"
R. Y. Chiao
Pairs of Planck-mass drops of superfluid helium coated by electrons (i.e., ``Millikan oil drops''), when levitated in a superconducting magnetic trap, can be efficient quantum tran…
Differing Calculations of the Response of Matter-wave Interferometers to Gravitational Waves
A. D. Speliotopoulos, R. Y. Chiao
There now exists in the literature two different expressions for the phase shift of a matter-wave interferometer caused by the passage of a gravitation wave. The first, a commonly…
A Crystal-based Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory
Raymond Y. Chiao, A. D. Speliotopoulos
It is shown that atom interferometry allows for the construction of MIGO, the Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory. MIGOs of the same sensitivity as LIGO or L…
Towards MIGO, the Matter-wave Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory, and the Intersection of Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity
Raymond Y. Chiao, Achilles D. Speliotopoulos
A dynamical, non-Euclidean spacetime geometry in general relativity theory implies the possibility of gravitational radiation. Here we explore novel methods of detecting such radia…
Quantum Interference to Measure Spacetime Curvature: A Proposed Experiment at the Intersection of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
Raymond Y. Chiao, Achilles D. Speliotopoulos
An experiment in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is proposed to measure components of the Riemann curvature tensor using atom interferometry. We show that the difference in the quantum phase…
Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: Are there experimental consequences?
R. Y. Chiao
One of the conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics (QM) and general relativity (GR) arises from the clash between the spatial nonseparability of entangled states in QM, and t…
Time and Matter in the Interaction between Gravity and Quantum Fluids: Are there Macroscopic Quantum Transducers between Gravitational and Electromagnetic waves?
Raymond Y. Chiao, Walter J. Fitelson
Measurements of the tunneling time are briefly reviewed. Next, time and matter in general relativity and quantum mechanics is examined. In particular, the question arises: How does…
Coupling of Linearized Gravity to Nonrelativistic Test Particles: Dynamics in the General Laboratory Frame
A. D. Speliotopoulos, Raymond Y. Chiao
The coupling of gravity to matter is explored in the linearized gravity limit. The usual derivation of gravity-matter couplings within the quantum-field-theoretic framework is revi…
Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: Are there experimental consequences?
Raymond Y. Chiao
One of the conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics (QM) and general relativity (GR) arises from the clash between the spatial nonseparability} of entangled states in QM, and…
The Extended Equivalence Principle and the Kramers-Kronig Relations
Raymond Y. Chiao
A seemingly obvious extension of the weak equivalence principle, in which all matter must respond to Post-Newtonian gravitational fields, such as Lense-Thirring and radiation field…
Conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics and general relativity: Are there experimental consequences, e.g., superconducting transducers between electromagnetic and gravitational radiation?
Raymond Y. Chiao
One of the conceptual tensions between quantum mechanics (QM) and general relativity (GR) arises from the clash between the spatial nonseparability of entangled states in QM, and t…
Superconductors as quantum transducers and antennas for gravitational and electromagnetic radiation
Raymond Y. Chiao
Superconductors will be considered as macroscopic quantum gravitational antennas and transducers, which can directly convert upon reflection a beam of quadrupolar electromagnetic r…