Abstract
We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gravitational wave
detector, and study its sensitivity by optimizing the properties of the
condensate and the measurement duration. We show that detecting kilohertz
gravitational waves is limited by current experimental techniques in squeezing
BEC phonons, while at higher frequencies, decoherence due to phonon-phonon
interaction gives the main limitation. Future improvements in technology to
squeeze BEC states can make them competitive detectors for gravitational waves
of astrophysical and/or cosmological origin.
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