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Quantum squeezing boosts performance of LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors

10 Dec 2019 Hamish Johnston
Squeezed light at LIGO
Squeezed state-of-the-art: LIGO team members install equipment as part of the squeezed-light upgrade. (Courtesy: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Matt Heintze)
Quantum squeezing has been used to increase the sensitivity of the LIGO and Virgo interferometers, m

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