Laboratory-Scale Superconducting Mirrors for Gravitational Microwaves Export

@article{citeulike:4214102, abstract = {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 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 results in an enormous enhancement of the strength of 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.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Chiao, Raymond and Minter, Stephen and Wegter-Mcnelly, Kirk}, citeulike-article-id = {4214102}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3280}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3280}, day = {22}, eprint = {0903.3280}, keywords = {detectors, gravitational, waves}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2009-03-24 11:47:24}, priority = {2}, title = {Laboratory-Scale Superconducting Mirrors for Gravitational Microwaves}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3280}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4214102 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4214102 N2 - 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 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 results in an enormous enhancement of the strength of 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. TI - Laboratory-Scale Superconducting Mirrors for Gravitational Microwaves KW - detectors KW - gravitational KW - waves AU - Chiao, Raymond AU - Minter, Stephen AU - Wegter-Mcnelly, Kirk PY - 2009/Mar/22/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3280 ER -