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Main Authors: Patra, Abhinav, Aiello, Lorenzo, Ejlli, Aldo, Griffiths, William L., James, Alasdair L., Kuntimaddi, Nikitha, Kwon, Ohkyung, Schwartz, Eyal, Vahlbruch, Henning, Vermeulen, Sander M., Kokeyama, Keiko, Dooley, Katherine L., Grote, Hartmut
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09175
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  • The Quantum-Enhanced Space-Time (QUEST) experiment consists of a pair of co-located Power Recycled Michelson Interferometers, each designed to have a broadband, shot-noise limited displacement sensitivity of $2\times10^{-19}$ $\mathrm{m/\sqrt{Hz}}$ from 1 to 200 MHz. Here we present the first results of QUEST that set new upper limits on correlated length fluctuations from 13 to 80 MHz, constituting the first broadband constraints for a stochastic gravitational wave background at these frequencies. In a coincident observing run of $10^{4}$ s the averaging of the cross-correlation spectra between the two interferometer signals resulted in a strain sensitivity of $3\times10^{-20}$ $\mathrm{1/\sqrt{Hz}}$ at 40 MHz, making QUEST the most sensitive table-top interferometric system to date.