Abstract
The interferometers now being developed to detect gravitational vaves work by measuring small changes in the positions of free masses. There has been a controversy whether quantum-mechanical radiation-pressure fluctuations disturb this measurement. This Letter resolves the controversy: They do.
- Received 29 January 1980
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.75
©1980 American Physical Society
