World's First Graviton Detector

World's First Graviton Detector
Oktay Yürük aka Oktay74tn, science and tech content
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This is an overview of the four fundamental forces of physics: the strong interaction, the weak interaction, electromagnetism, and gravity. Gravitons are theoretical particles with discrete energy that form gravitational waves. Their interaction strength with matter is very weak. Of 10 to the 36 gravitons, only a few are absorbed by a detector. A new scientific paper presents an experimental concept for detecting gravitons.

The new detector is based on a gravito-phononic analog of the photo-electric effect. A phonon is a quasiparticle, a quantized sound wave in matter. The gravitons are absorbed by a resonator that is cooled down to the ground state. Their quantum jump can be detected by continuous quantum measurements of energy eigenstates. The signal can be correlated to the data from LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

This is the LIGO control room at Hanford, Washington. There is a second location at Livingston, Louisiana. In 2015, the LIGO and Virgo collaboration observed gravitational waves for the first time.

This artist’s impression shows the merger of two neutron stars, one of several major sources of gravitational waves. A 15 kg beryllium resonator is required to observe individual gravitons from this event. The resonator must be cooled down to one millikelvin to reach the ground state.

These are simulated diagrams of the time-continuous readout signal at the top left and the change of the ground state population over time at the top right. The two diagrams at the bottom show the population of the first and second excited states. The blue dashed line indicates the time required for the detector to reinitialize, which is 40 seconds.

Soviet physicist Igor Tamm introduced the concept of phonons in 1930. In 1958, Tamm won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his scientific discoveries.

Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing
Germain Tobar, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Thomas Beitel & Igor Pikovski
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51420-8

Sources and Types of Gravitational Waves
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/gw-sources

Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
https://www.sci.news/physics/graviton-detector-14489.html

Wikipedia articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_interferometer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Tamm

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