This seminar will review the recently published paper [1], which proposes and discusses the feasibility of an experiment to observe the exchange of energy quanta between matter and gravitational waves. In cross-correlation with classical gravitational wave detectors, such as LIGO, this experiment could allow for the detection of single gravitons.
[1] G. Tobar, S.K. Manikandan, T. Beitel et al., Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing, Nat. Commun. 15, 7229 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51420-8; available also on