Boosting gravitational wave detectors with quantum tricks

(Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen) A group of scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen will soon start developing a new line of technical equipment in order to dramatically improve gravitational wave detectors. If the NBI-scientists are able to improve the gravitational wave detectors as much as they 'realistically expect can be done,' the detectors will be able to monitor and carry out measurements in an eight times bigger volume of space than ...