A team led by Stevens professor Igor Pikovski has just outlined how to detect single gravitons, thought to be the quantum building blocks of gravity—and making that experiment real should be possible with quantum technology, they suggest, in the near future.
"This is a foundational experiment that was long thought impossible, but we think we've found a way to do it," says Stevens physics professor Igor Pikovski, also affiliated with Stockholm University.
Pikovski led a team of first-year graduate students Germain Tobar, Thomas Beitel and postdoctoral researcher Sreenath Manikandan. Their results on "detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing" were published in Nature Communications.
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