A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector
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K. GODA1, O. MIYAKAWA2, E. E. MIKHAILOV3, S. SARAF4, R. ADHIKARI2, K. MCKENZIE5, R. WARD2, S. VASS2, A. J. WEINSTEIN2 AND N. MAVALVALA1* LIGO Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA Center for Gravitational Physics, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia *e-mail: [email protected]
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