Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ito, Asuka, Kitano, Ryuichiro, Nakano, Wakutaka, Takai, Ryoto
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19053
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • A detection method for high-frequency gravitational waves using two-dimensional ion crystals is investigated. Gravitational waves can resonantly excite the drumhead modes of the ion crystal, particularly the parity-odd modes. In the optical dipole force protocol, entanglement between the drumhead modes and the collective spins transfers the excitation of the drumhead modes to the rotation of the total spin. Furthermore, gravitational wave detection beyond the standard quantum limit becomes possible as a squeezed spin state is generated through this entanglement. The sensitivity gets better with a larger ions crystals as well as a larger number of the ions. Future realization of large ion crystals can significantly improve the sensitivity to gravitational waves in the 10 kHz to 10 MHz region.