Quantum Backaction on kg-Scale Mirrors: Observation of Radiation Pressure Noise in the Advanced Virgo Detector

verfasst von
Virgo Collaboration , F. Acernese, M. Agathos, L. Aiello, A. Ain, A. Allocca, A. Amato, S. Ansoldi, S. Antier, M. Arène, N. Arnaud, S. Ascenzi, P. Astone, F. Aubin, S. Babak, F. Badaracco, M. K.M. Bader, S. Bagnasco, J. Baird, G. Ballardin, G. Baltus, C. Barbieri, P. Barneo, F. Barone, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, A. Basti, M. Bawaj, M. Bazzan, M. Bejger, I. Belahcene, S. Bernuzzi, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, M. Bischi, M. Bitossi, M. A. Bizouard, O. Blanch, F. Bobba, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, M. Boldrini, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, V. Boschi, V. Boudart, Y. Bouffanais, H. Vahlbruch, H. Lück, K. Danzmann, Moritz Mehmet
Abstract

The quantum radiation pressure and the quantum shot noise in laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors constitute a macroscopic manifestation of the Heisenberg inequality. If quantum shot noise can be easily observed, the observation of quantum radiation pressure noise has been elusive, so far, due to the technical noise competing with quantum effects. Here, we discuss the evidence of quantum radiation pressure noise in the Advanced Virgo gravitational wave detector. In our experiment, we inject squeezed vacuum states of light into the interferometer in order to manipulate the quantum backaction on the 42 kg mirrors and observe the corresponding quantum noise driven displacement at frequencies between 30 and 70 Hz. The experimental data, obtained in various interferometer configurations, is tested against the Advanced Virgo detector quantum noise model which confirmed the measured magnitude of quantum radiation pressure noise.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Gravitationsphysik
QuantumFrontiers
Externe Organisation(en)
Universita di Salerno
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Sezione di Pisa
University of Pisa
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
University of Udine
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Universität Paris-Saclay
European Gravitational Observatory (EGO)
Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef)
Université de Liège
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
University of Perugia
Università degli Studi di Padova
Sezione di Padova
Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Sezione di Genova
Universität Urbino „Carlo Bo“
Università degli Studi di Firenze (UniFi)
Université Côte d'Azur
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
Sapienza Università di Roma
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Physical review letters
Band
125
ISSN
0031-9007
Publikationsdatum
22.09.2020
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.131101 (Zugang: Offen)