True and apparent motion of gravitational-wave detector test masses

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14341v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:13:25 GMT
• Title: True and apparent motion of gravitational-wave detector test masses
• Authors: Evan D. Hall, Kevin Kuns,
• Abstract summary: Modern optomechanical systems employ increasingly sophisticated quantum-mechanical states of light to probe and manipulate mechanical motion. We provide an accurate accounting of the true test mass motion, incorporating all sources of loss, the effect of feedback control, and the influence of classical force and sensing noises. We apply this formalism to current and possible future gravitational-wave interferometers, LIGO A+, LIGO Voyager, Cosmic Explorer (CE), and CE Voyager.
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• Abstract: Modern optomechanical systems employ increasingly sophisticated quantum-mechanical states of light to probe and manipulate mechanical motion. Squeezed states are now used routinely to enhance the sensitivity of gravitational-wave interferometers to small external forces, and they are also used in feedback-based trapping and damping experiments on the same interferometers to enhance the achievable cooling of the the phonon occupation number of the differential test mass mode (arXiv:2102.12665). In this latter context, an accurate accounting of the true test mass motion, incorporating all sources of loss, the effect of feedback control, and the influence of classical force and sensing noises, is paramount. We work within the two-photon formalism to provide such an accounting, which extends a physically motivated decomposition of the quantum-mechanical noise of the light field (arxiv:2105.12052). This decomposition provides insight, rooted in experimentally accessible parameters, into the optimal squeezed state that should be employed to achieve the lowest occupation number. We apply this formalism to current and possible future gravitational-wave interferometers, LIGO A+, LIGO Voyager, Cosmic Explorer (CE), and CE Voyager, finding that occupation numbers below 1 are possible over a frequency range comparable to the bandwidth of the trapped and cooled oscillator. We also discuss several technical issues in cooling experiments with gravitational-wave detectors.

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