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The popular science channel PBS Space Time has dedicated an episode on our work on single graviton detection. In the video, Matt O'Dowd explains our recent result that shows how single gravitons can be detected with near future technology. The segment captures and highlights the core new ideas in our work that make graviton detection possible.

Jointly with the lab of Jack Harris at Yale, our group has received a research grant by the W. M. Keck Foundation to study and develop a graviton detector. The goal is to build a proof-of-principle experimental system and explore its capabilities to probe gravitons, as well as features of linearized quantum gravity and its alternatives. The grant is a first of its kind specifically for graviton detection, which in 2024 was shown to be possible in our publication .

Our graduate student Thomas successfully defended his thesis today. Thomas worked on the quantization of gravitational radiation, and how the resulting gravitons could be detected in near future experiments. His work explored detection capabilities, and what such experiments will eventually teach us about gravitational radiation in the quantum regime. His series of papers provide the first blueprint on how gravitons could be detected - transforming a long-standing science-fic

Igor Pikovski recently spoke with Davide de Biasio from the International Society for Quantum Gravity about our group’s latest results showing that gravitons can now be detected in realistic experiments. In this podcast, Pikovski explains how advances in controlling and sensing quantum systems have opened the prospect of single-graviton detection through the absorption of individual quanta of gravitational-wave energy, combined with cross-correlation to LIGO observations. Th

The Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science announced the appointment of Igor Pikovski as the Geoffrey S. Inman Junior...