Gravity induced quantum interference on gravitational wave background

Gravitational-wave probe of effective quantum gravity

An interferometric gravitational wave detector as a quantum-gravity apparatus

As a consequence of the extreme precision of the measurements it performs, a LIGO/VIRGO-type interferometric gravitational wave detector (IGWD) is a macroscopic apparatus for which quantum effects are not negligible. We observe that this property of IGWDs can be exploited to probe some aspects of the interface between Quantum Mechanics and Gravity. In particular, we find that IGWDs can test two...

Loop quantum gravity corrections to gravitational wave dispersion

Cosmological tensor perturbations equations are derived for Hamiltonian cosmology based on Ashtekar’s formulation of general relativity, including typical quantum gravity effects in the Hamiltonian constraint as they are expected from loop quantum gravity. This translates to corrections of the dispersion relation for gravitational waves. The main application here is the preservation of causalit...

Gravitational wave radiometry: Mapping a stochastic gravitational wave background

Sanjit Mitra,* Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Tarun Souradeep, Albert Lazzarini,3,x Vuk Mandic,3,k Sukanta Bose,4,{ and Stefan Ballmer** Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 18-34, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Departme...

Mapping the gravitational wave background

The gravitational wave sky is expected to have isolated bright sources superimposed on a diffuse gravitational wave background. The background radiation has two components: a confusion limited background from unresolved astrophysical sources; and a cosmological component formed during the birth of the universe. A map of the gravitational wave background can be made by sweeping a gravitational w...