Gravitational Wave Interaction with Normal and Superconducting Circuits

TL;DR

This paper investigates how gravitational waves interact with electromagnetic circuits, especially superconducting ones, by altering their parameters, and proposes a circuit-based detector for periodic gravitational waves.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to detecting gravitational waves using electromagnetic circuits with modified parameters due to gravitational interaction.

Findings

Gravitational waves can modify circuit parameters R, L, C.

A circuit with two charged condensers can detect periodic gravitational waves.

The interaction is significant in the long-wavelength approximation.

Abstract

The interaction, in the long--wavelength approximation, of normal and superconducting electromagnetic circuits with gravitational waves is investigated. We show that such interaction takes place by modifying the physical parameters R, L, C of the electromagnetic devices. Exploiting this peculiarity of the gravitational field we find that a circuit with two plane and statically charged condensers set at right angles can be of interest as a detector of periodic gravitational waves.