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Coping with pressure

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Radiation pressure noise from squeezed light constrains the precision of sensing devices such as improved gravitational wave interferometers.

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Figure 1: LIGO sites and the standard quantum limit.

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  1. James S. Bennett and Warwick P. Bowen are at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS), School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia,

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