Yanbei Chen

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Education

B.S., Peking University (Beijing, China) 1999.

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California), 2003.

Employment

Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California), 2003 - 04.

Staff Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Potsdam, Germany), 2004 -

List of Publications

1. A. Buonanno and Y. Chen, Optical noise correlations and beating the Standard Quantum Limit in advanced gravitational-wave detectors, Class. Quantum Grav. 18, L95 (2001).

2. A. Buonanno and Y. Chen, Quantum noise in second generation, signal-recycled laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, Phys. Rev. D 64,042006 (2001).

3. A. Buonanno and Y. Chen, Signal recycled laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors as optical springs, Phys. Rev. D 65, 042001 (2001).

4. A. Buonanno and Y. Chen, Laser-interferometer gravitational-wave optical-spring detectors, the Proceedings of 4th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Class. Quantum Grav. 19, 1569 (2002).

5. P. Purdue and Y. Chen, Practical speed-meter designs for QND gravitational-wave interferometers, Phys. Rev. D 66, 122004 (2002)

6. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen and M. Vallisneri, Detection template families for gravitational waves from the final stages of binary–black-hole inspirals. Non-spinning case, Phys. Rev. D 67, 024016 (2003).

7. A. Buonanno and Y. Chen, Scaling law in signal-recycled laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors, Phys. Rev. D 67, 062002 (2003).

8. Y. Chen, Sagnac interferometer as a speed-meter–type, Quantum-Nondemolition gravitational-wave detector, Phys. Rev. D 67, 122004 (2003).

9. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen and M. Vallisneri, Detecting gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Adiabatic limit, Phys. Rev. D 67, 122005 (2003).

10. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen and N. Mavalvala, Quantum noise in laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors with modulation-demodulation readout scheme, Phys. Rev. D 67, 122005 (2003).

11. J. Harms, Y. Chen, S. Chelkowski, A. Franzen, H. Vahlbruch, K. Danzmann and R. Schnabel, Squeezed-input, optical-spring, signal-recycled gravitational-wave detectors, Phys. Rev. D 68, 042001 (2003).

12. G. de Vine, M. Gray, D. McClelland, Y. Chen and S. Whitcomb, Measurement of the frequency response of a bench-top quantum speed meter interferometer, Phys. Lett. A 316, 17 (2003).

13. Y. Pan, A. Buonanno, Y. Chen and M. Vallisneri, A physical template family for gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to single-spin binaries, Phys. Rev. D 69, 104017 (2004).

14. A. Buonanno and Y. Chen, Improving the sensitivity to gravitational-wave sources by modifying the input-output optics of advanced interferometers, Phys. Rev. D 69, 102004 (2004).

15. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, Y. Pan and M. Vallisneri, Quasiphysical family of gravity-wave templates for precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to double-spin precessing binaries, Phys. Rev. D 70, 104003 (2004).

16. S. Kawamura and Y. Chen, Displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave detection, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 211103 (2004).

17. S. Wise, V. Quetschke, A.J. Deshpande, G. Mueller, D.H. Reitze, D.B. Tanner, B.F. Whiting, Y. Chen, A. Tünnermann, E. Kley, and T. Clausnitzer, Phase Effects in the Diffraction of Light: Beyond the Grating Equation, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 013901 (2005).

18. T. Corbitt, Y. Chen and N. Mavalvala, Mathematical framework for simulation of quantum fields in complex interferometers using the two-photon formalism, Phys. Rev. A 72, 013818 (2005).

19. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, Y. Pan, H. Tagoshi, M. Vallisneri, Detecting gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects. II. Search implementation for low-mass binaries, Phys. Rev. D 72, 084027 (2005).

20. T. Corbitt, Y. Chen, F. Khalili, D. Ottaway, S. Vyatchanin, S. Whitcomb and N. Mavalvala, A squeezed state source using radiation pressure induced rigidity, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023801 (2006).

21. Y. Chen and S. Kawamura, Displacement- and timing-noise-free gravitational-wave detection, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006), gr-qc/0504108.

22. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, T. Damour, Transition from inspiral to plunge in precessing binaries of spinning black holes, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2005), gr-qc/0508067.

23. J. Agresti, Y. Chen, E. D’Ambrosio and P. Savov, A duality relation between non-spherical optical cavities and its application to gravitational-wave detectors, gr-qc/0511062

24. Y. Chen, A Pai, K. Somiya, S. Kawamura, S. Sato, K. Kokeyama, R.L. Ward, Interferometers for displacement-noise-free gravitational-wave detection, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006), gr-qc/0603054.

25. Y. Chen and L. Wen, Probing spacetime foam with photons: suppression of observable effects due to uncertainty in optical paths, gr-qc/0605093.

26. S. Sato, S. Kawamura, K. Kokeyama, R. Ward, Y. Chen, A. Pai and K. Somiya, Demonstration of displacement- and frequency-noise free laser interferometer using bi-directional Mach-Zehnder interferometers, gr-qc/0608095.