Gravitational bar detectors set limits to Planck-scale physics on macroscopic variables

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 71-73

  Marin, Francesco ^a,b,c   Marino, Francesco ^c,d   Bonaldi, Michele ^e,f   Cerdonio, Massimo ^g   Conti, Livia ^g   Falferi, Paolo ^e,f   Mezzena, Renato ^f,h   Ortolan, Antonello ⁱ   Prodi, Giovanni A ^f,h   Taffarello, Luca ^g   Vedovato, Gabriele ^g   Vinante, Andrea ^e,j   Zendri, Jean Pierre ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO DEI SISTEMI COMPLESSI   (Italy)

^e FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^f INFN TIFPA   (Italy)

^g SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

ⁱ LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO   (Italy)

^j LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GROUND STATE; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); OSCILLISTORS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; GENERALIZED UNCERTAINTY RELATION; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; GROUND-STATE ENERGIES; LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY; MACROSCOPIC MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; MACROSCOPIC VARIABLES; QUANTUM GRAVITY;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 84873405596     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2503     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Amati, D., Ciafaloni, M. & Veneziano, G. Superstring collisions at Planckian energies. Phys. Lett. B 197, 81-88 (1987).
2. Gross, D. J. & Mende, P. F. String theory beyond the Planck scale. Nucl. Phys. B 303, 407-454 (1988).
3. Amelino-Camelia, G. Doubly special relativity: First results and key open problems. Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 11, 1643-1669 (2002).
4. Maggiore, M. A generalized uncertainty principle in quantum gravity. Phys. Lett. B 304, 65-69 (1993).
5. Scardigli, F. Generalized uncertainty principle in quantum gravity from micro-black hole gedanken experiment. Phys. Lett. B 452, 39-44 (1999).
6. Jizba, P., Kleinert, H. & Scardigli, F. Uncertainty relation on a world crystal and its applications to micro black holes. Phys. Rev. D 81, 084030 (2010).
7. Garay, L. G. Quantum gravity and minimum length. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 10, 145-165 (1995).
8. Hossenfelder, S. Minimal length scale scenarios for quantum gravity. Living Rev. Relativ. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1203.6191 (2012).
9. Das, S. & Vagenas, E. C. Universality of quantum gravity corrections. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 221301 (2008).
10. Ali, A. F., Das, S. & Vagenas, E. C. Discreteness of space from the generalized uncertainty principle. Phys. Lett. B 678, 497-499 (2009).
11. Ali, A. F., Das, S. & Vagenas, E. C. A proposal for testing quantum gravity in the lab. Phys. Rev. D 84, 044013 (2011).
12. Pikovski, I., Vanner, M. R., Aspelmeyer, M., Kim, M. S. & Brukner, . Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics. Nature Phys. 8, 393-397 (2012).
13. Amelino-Camelia, G., Ellis, J., Mavromatos, N. E., Nanopoulos, D. V. & Sarkar, S. Tests of quantum gravity from observations of gamma-ray bursts. Nature 393, 763-765 (1998).
14. Jacob, U. & Piran, T. Neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts as a tool to explore quantum-gravity-induced Lorentz violation. Nature Phys. 7, 87-90 (2007).
15. Tamburini, F., Cuofano, C., Della Valle, M. & Gilmozzi, R. No quantum gravity signature from the farthest quasars. Astron. Astrophys. 533, 1-5 (2011).
16. Abdo, A. A. et al. A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects. Nature 462, 331-334 (2009).
17. O'Connell, A. D. et al. Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator. Nature 464, 697-713 (2010).
18. Teufel, J. D. et al. Sideband cooling of micromechanical motion to the quantum ground state. Nature 475, 359-363 (2011).
19. Chan, J. et al. Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state. Nature 478, 89-92 (2011).
20. Safavi-Naeini, A. H. et al. Observation of quantum motion of a nanomechanical resonator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033602 (2012).
21. Hossenfelder, S. Multiparticle states in deformed special relativity. Phys. Rev. D 75, 105005 (2007).
22. Quesne, C. & Tkachuk, V. M. Composite system in deformed space with minimal length. Phys. Rev. A 81, 012106 (2010).
23. Maggiore, M. The algebraic structure of the generalized uncertainty principle. Phys. Lett. B 319, 83-86 (1993).
24. Kempf, A., Mangano, G. & Mann, R. B. Hilbert space representation of the minimal length uncertainty relation. Phys. Rev. D 52, 1108-1118 (1995).
25. Sathyaprakash, B.S. & Schutz, B. F. Physics, astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational waves. Living Rev. Relativ. 12, 1-141 (2009).
26. Allen, Z. A. et al. First search for gravitational wave bursts with a network of detectors. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5046-5050 (2000).
27. Vinante, A. et al. Feedback cooling of the normal modes of a massive electromechanical system to submillikelvin temperature. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033601 (2008).
28. Vinante, A. et al. Stabilization and optimization of a two-stage d.c. SQUID coupled to a high Q resonator. Physica C 368, 176-180 (2002).
29. Baggio, L. et al. 3-mode detection for widening the bandwidth of resonant gravitational wave detectors. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 241101 (2005).
30. Selected Articles from the 9th Edoardo Amaldi Meeting and the 2011 Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis Meeting (AMALDI 9/NRDA 2011) Class. Quant. Grav. 29, 120301-129603 (Special issue, 2012).
31. Cerdonio, M. & Losurdo, G. Gravitational waves: from discovery to astronomy. La Riv. Nuovo Cimento 35, 389-480 (2012).
32. Amelino-Camelia, G. Gravity-wave interferometers as quantum-gravity detectors. Nature 398, 216-218 (1999).
33. Hogan, C. J. Interferometers as probes of Planckian quantum geometry. Phys. Rev. D 85, 064007 (2012).