A quantum sensing experiment now has the potential to identify single gravitons — the particles that make up gravity — which was considered impossible until now.
A team led by Stevens professor Igor Pikovski has recently proposed a method to detect individual gravitons, believed to be the quantum building blocks of gravity. They suggest that with advancements in quantum technology, this experiment could become a reality in the near future.
“This is a foundational experiment that was long thought impossible, but we think we’ve found a way to do it,” says Stevens physics professor Igor Pikovski, also affiliated with Stockholm University.
Pikovski led a team of first-year graduate students Germain Tobar, Thomas Beitel, and postdoctoral researcher Sreenath Manikandan. Their results on “detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing” were published in Nature Communications this week.
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