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Department(s)/lab(s): Astronomy and Astrophysics | Hogan Group @ UChicago
Summary:

Hogan proposed that the holographic principle implies a fundamental, universal quantum uncertainty ('holographic noise') in the transverse position of spacetime at the Planck scale, and co-led the Fermilab Holometer -- twin co-located, power-recycled Michelson interferometers -- to search for it, ruling out the simplest models to high significance. This is a distinct fundamental-light-physics/quantum-sensing approach from squeezed-light-enhanced GW interferometers (e.g., LIGO), using precision laser interferometry to probe quantum properties of spacetime itself rather than squeezing quantum noise in a detector.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m. Metadata: Jul 2026; led the Fermilab Holometer experiment