Digital Discovery of interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Digital Discovery of interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
المؤلفون: Krenn, Mario, Drori, Yehonathan, Adhikari, Rana X
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Physics - Optics
الوصف: Gravitational waves, detected a century after they were first theorized, are spacetime distortions caused by some of the most cataclysmic events in the universe, including black hole mergers and supernovae. The successful detection of these waves has been made possible by ingenious detectors designed by human experts. Beyond these successful designs, the vast space of experimental configurations remains largely unexplored, offering an exciting territory potentially rich in innovative and unconventional detection strategies. Here, we demonstrate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to systematically explore this enormous space, revealing novel topologies for gravitational wave (GW) detectors that outperform current next-generation designs under realistic experimental constraints. Our results span a broad range of astrophysical targets, such as black hole and neutron star mergers, supernovae, and primordial GW sources. Moreover, we are able to conceptualize the initially unorthodox discovered designs, emphasizing the potential of using AI algorithms not only in discovering but also in understanding these novel topologies. We've assembled more than 50 superior solutions in a publicly available Gravitational Wave Detector Zoo which could lead to many new surprising techniques. At a bigger picture, our approach is not limited to gravitational wave detectors and can be extended to AI-driven design of experiments across diverse domains of fundamental physics.
Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures. Comments welcome!
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04258
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2312.04258
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv