Noise in gravitational-wave detectors and other classical-force measurements is not influenced by test-mass quantization

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Braginsky, Vladimir B ^a   Gorodetsky, Mikhail L ^a   Khalili, Farid Ya ^a   Matsko, Andrey B ^b   Thorne, Kip S ^c   Vyatchanin, Sergey P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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ARTICLE; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETER; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION;

EID: 4244179857     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.082001     Document Type: Article

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