arXiv:2305.11224·v1·General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Gravity Background in Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
Mathew W. Bub🇺🇸 · Yanbei Chen🇺🇸 · Yufeng Du🇺🇸 · Dongjun Li🇺🇸 · Yiwen Zhang🇺🇸 · Kathryn M. Zurek🇺🇸
Abstract
We study the effects of geontropic vacuum fluctuations in quantum gravity on next-generation terrestrial gravitational wave detectors. If the VZ effect proposed in Ref. [1], as modeled in Refs. [2, 3], appears in the upcoming GQuEST experiment, we show that it will be a large background for astrophysical gravitational wave searches in observatories like Cosmic Explorer and the Einstein Telescope.
Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures