Scientific Bibliography
Why we built the Holometer
Publications
Models of exotic interferometer cross-correlations in emergent space-timeCraig Hogan and Ohkyung Kwon
Class. and Quantum Grav. 35 204001 arXiv 1771.05514
First measurements of high frequency cross-spectra from a pair of large Michelson interferometers
Aaron Chou, Henry Glass, H Richard Gustafson, Craig J Hogan, Brittany L Kamai, Ohkyung Kwon, Robert Lanza, Lee McCuller, Stephan S Meyer, Jonathan W Richardson, Chris Stoughton, Ray Tomlin and Rainer Weiss
2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 111102 arXiv 1512.01216
Interferometric tests of Planckian quantum geometry models
Kwon O and Hogan C J
2016 Classical and Quantum Gravity 33 105004 arXiv 1410.8197
MHz gravitational wave constraints with decameter Michelson interferometers
Aaron S. Chou, Richard Gustafson, Craig Hogan, Brittany Kamai, Ohkyung Kwon, Robert Lanza, Shane L. Larson, Lee McCuller, Stephan S. Meyer, Jonathan Richardson, Chris Stoughton, Raymond Tomlin, and Rainer Weiss 2017,
Phys. Rev. D 95, 063002 arXiv 1611.05560
The Holometer: an instrument to probe Planckian quantum geometry
Aaron Chou, Henry Glass, H Richard Gustafson, Craig J Hogan, Brittany L Kamai, Ohkyung Kwon, Robert Lanza, Lee McCuller, Stephan S Meyer, Jonathan W Richardson, Chris Stoughton, Ray Tomlin and Rainer Weiss
2017 Classical and Quantum Gravity 34 065005 arXiv 1611.08265
Statistical measures of Planck scale signal correlations in interferometers
Craig J Hogan and Ohkyung Kwon
Classical and Quantum Gravity 34 075006 arXiv 1506.06808
Interferometric constraints on quantum geometrical shear noise correlations
Aaron Chou, Henry Glass, H Richard Gustafson, Craig J Hogan, Brittany L Kamai, Ohkyung Kwon, Robert Lanza, Lee McCuller, Stephan S Meyer, Jonathan W Richardson, Chris Stoughton, Ray Tomlin and Rainer Weiss
2017 Classical and Quantum Gravity 34 165005 arXiv 1703.08503
Statistical model of exotic rotational correlations in emergent space-time
Hogan C, Kwon O and Richardson J
2017 Classical and Quantum Gravity 34 135006 arXiv 1607.03048
Exotic rotational correlations in quantum geometry
Craig Hogan
2017 Phys. Rev. D 95 104050 arXiv 1509.07997
Talks
Experimental Limits on Gravitational Waves in the MHz Frequency Range with the Fermilab Holometer Robert Lanza, 2015-03-27
Theory
The theory of holographic noise is due to Craig Hogan.
- Now Broadcasting in Planck Definition
- Hogan Interferometers as probes of Planckian quantum geometry (arXiv:1002.4889) Phys. Rev. D 85, 064067, March 6, 2012
- A Model of Macroscopic Quantum Geometry
- Quantum Geometry and Interferometry, Proc. Astr. Soc. Pac. 467,17 (2012).
Experiment
A conceptual design for the experiment was written by Rai Weiss on Feb 10, 2009.
The grand plan for the Holometer is laid out in the proposal document:
- A. Chou, et al. The Fermilab Holometer. (pdf)
Overview presented for the Time and Matter 2013 conference
- C. Stoughton et al.Quantum Geometry and the Fermilab Holometer
The Holometer is very closely based on interferometric gravitational wave detectors like LIGO or GEO600.
These are two comprehensive pedagogical resources for learning about LIGO:
- Caltech’s gravitational waves course, which comprises nineteen weeks’ worth (!) of lecture videos, slides, journal aticles, and problem sets.
- Peter Saulson's book, Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors. Available through the publisher.
General resources
- Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed.
- Moore, Davis, and Coplan, Building Scientific Apparatus, 4th ed.
- Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, 3rd ed.
Lasers
These books are good all-in-one resources for a discussion of lasers and optical systems in general.
- A. Siegman. Lasers.
- O. Svelto. Principles of Lasers, 5th ed.
Gaussian optics
- Siegman, chapters 14 through 21.
- Svelto, chapters 4 and 5.
- H. Kogelnik and T. Li. Laser beams and optical resonators. Applied Optics, 5, 1550–67 (1966).
Power-recycled Michelson interferometers
- B. Abbott, et al. LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Reports on Progress in Physics, 72, 076901 (2009).
Cavity locking
- E. Black. An introduction to Pound–Drever–Hall laser frequency stabilization. American Journal of Physics, 69, 79–87 (2001).
Control theory and feedback
- J. Bechhoefer. Feedback for physicists: A tutorial essay on control. Rev. Mod. Phys., 77, 783–836 (2005).
Signal processing
- Heinzel, Rudiger, and Schilling, Spectrum and spectral density estimation by the Discrete Fourier transform (DFT), including a comprehensive list of window functions and some new at-top windows.
- E. Brigham. The Fast Fourier Transform and Its Applications. (Despite the title, a good introduction to digital signal processing in general.)