Testing the generalized uncertainty principle with macroscopic mechanical oscillators and pendulums

PA Bushev, J Bourhill, M Goryachev, N Kukharchyk… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Recent progress in observing and manipulating mechanical oscillators at quantum regime
provides new opportunities of studying fundamental physics, for example to search for low …

Searching for scalar dark matter with compact mechanical resonators

J Manley, DJ Wilson, R Stump, D Grin, S Singh - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Ultralight scalars are an interesting dark matter candidate that may produce a mechanical
signal by modulating the Bohr radius. Recently it has been proposed to search for this signal …

Extremely low-loss acoustic phonons in a quartz bulk acoustic wave resonator at millikelvin temperature

M Goryachev, DL Creedon, EN Ivanov… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Low-loss, high frequency acoustic resonators cooled to millikelvin temperatures are a topic
of great interest for application to hybrid quantum systems. When cooled to 20 mK, we show …

Ultrasensitive microwave spectroscopy of paramagnetic impurities in sapphire crystals at millikelvin temperatures

WG Farr, DL Creedon, M Goryachev, K Benmessai… - Physical Review B, 2013 - APS
Progress in the emerging field of engineered quantum systems requires the development of
devices that can act as quantum memories. The realization of such devices by doping solid …

On the cabling seismic isolation for the microwave transducers of the Schenberg detector

F da Silva Bortoli, C Frajuca, NS Magalhaes… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Schenberg is a resonant-mass gravitational wave detector developed by the Brazilian
Graviton group that is sensitive to a central frequency near 3200 Hz with bandwidth around …

On the dilution refrigerator thermal connection for the SCHENBERG gravitational wave detector

FS Bortoli, C Frajuca, NS Magalhaes… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The resonant-mass gravitational wave detector SCHENBERG was designed by the Brazilian
group Graviton to be sensitive to a central frequency nearing 3200 Hz and a bandwidth of …

Modelling a mechanical antenna for a calibrator for interferometric gravitational wave detector using finite elements method

ARC Prado, FS Bortoli, NS Magalhaes… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Interferometric gravitational wave detectors (IGWD) are a very complex detector, the need to
lock the detector in a dark fringe condition besides the vibrations that affect the mirrors …

Modelling an experiment to measure the speed of gravity in short distances

C Frajuca, FS Bortoli - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
An experiment to measure the speed of gravitational signals in short distances has been
developed with the goal to study its behaviour as traveling through a medium different from …

Modelling a suspension for an experiment to measure the speed of gravity in short distances

WCS Ramalho, FS Bortoli, NS Magalhaes… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An experiment to measure the speed of gravitational signals in short distances has been
developed with the intention to study its behavior when a medium different from air is …

Single-crystal sapphire resonator at millikelvin temperatures: Observation of thermal bistability in high- factor whispering gallery modes

DL Creedon, ME Tobar, JM Le Floch, Y Reshitnyk… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Resonance modes in single crystal sapphire (α-Al 2 O 3) exhibit extremely high electrical
and mechanical Q factors (≈ 10 9 at 4 K), which are important characteristics for …