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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Quantum enhanced correlated interferometry for quantum gravity tests: the experimental set-up and the locking scheme

Siva T. Pradyumna, Elena Losero, P. Traina, Ivano Ruo Berchera, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Massimo E. Zucco, Marco Genovese

Published Sep 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract The search for Planck scale scale effect is one of holy grails of physics. In Fermilab a double Michelson interferometer was built for this purpose: the holometer. In this proceedings we review our effort to build a quantum enhanced holometer.
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10.1088/1742-6596/1275/1/012020

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