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Influence of separating distance between atomic sensors for gravitational wave detection

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We consider a recent scheme of gravitational wave detection using atomic interferometers as inertial sensors, and reinvestigate its configuration using the concept of sensitivity functions. We show that such configuration can suppress noise without influencing the gravitational wave signal. But the suppression is insufficient for the direct observation of gravitational wave signals, so we analyse the behaviour of the different noises influencing the detection scheme. As a novel method, we study the relations between the measurement sensitivity and the distance between two interferometers, and find that the results derived from vibration noise and laser frequency noise are in stark contrast to that derived from the shot noise, which is significant for the configuration design of gravitational wave detectors using atomic interferometers.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonances and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, P.R. China

    Biao Tang, Baocheng Zhang, Lin Zhou, Jin Wang & Mingsheng Zhan

  2. School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China

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Tang, B., Zhang, B., Zhou, L. et al. Influence of separating distance between atomic sensors for gravitational wave detection. Eur. Phys. J. D 69, 233 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2015-60069-8

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