Comments on graviton detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00094v1
• Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:15:51 GMT
• Title: Comments on graviton detection
• Authors: Daniel Carney,
• Abstract summary: It is possible to make a detector which clicks after absorbing a single graviton. It is also possible to make a gravitational wave detector which can see the quantum noise induced by certain highly squeezed states of the graviton.
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• Abstract: It is possible to make a detector which clicks after absorbing a single graviton. Similarly, it is possible to make a gravitational wave detector which can see the quantum noise induced by certain highly squeezed states of the graviton. However, contrary to some recent arguments in the literature, observation of either or both of these signals would not constitute proof or even evidence that the gravitational field is quantized. This is a simple technical statement: a classical gravitational wave can produce the same output data in a detector. Here we explain this result, presented earlier in arXiv:2308.12988, which is a straightforward extension of an ancient argument in quantum optics.

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