Laboratory-Scale Superconducting Mirrors for Gravitational Microwaves
| dc.creator | Chiao, Raymond | |
| dc.creator | Minter, Stephen | |
| dc.creator | Wegter-McNelly, Kirk | |
| dc.date | 2009-03-19 | |
| dc.date | 2009-03-26 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:56:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:56:17Z | |
| dc.description | When a gravitational wave at microwave frequencies impinges on a thin, type I superconducting film, the radical delocalization of the film's negatively charged Cooper pairs, which is due to the Uncertainty Principle, causes them to undergo non-geodesic motion relative to the geodesic motion of the decohered, positively charged ions in the film's lattice, which is due to the Equivalence Principle. The ensuing charge separation leads to a virtual plasma excitation. This "Heisenberg-Coulomb" effect enormously enhances the interaction of a gravitational wave with a superconductor relative to that of normal matter, so that the wave will be reflected even from a very thin superconducting film. This result is presented using the BCS theory and a superconducting plasma model. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3280 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3280 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/224535 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Laboratory-Scale Superconducting Mirrors for Gravitational Microwaves | |
| dc.type | text |