Message from editor in chief Physics World:- "This is not click bait".

[sjastro]

Table top device might snare gravitational waves using tiny diamonds.

If it wasn't for the editor in chief's message I would have dismissed it as a PopSci article.
Masochists can read the accepted manuscript here.

 

[Brightmoon]

Wow!!!

 

[Hans Blaster]

Table top device might snare gravitational waves using tiny diamonds.

If it wasn't for the editor in chief's message I would have dismissed it as a PopSci article.
Masochists can read the accepted manuscript here.

That is quite a remarkable concept if it can be realized. The most ambitious version (using macromolecules) would be the most sensitive GW detector in the gap between the very long frequency GWs detectable with the planned space-based "LISA" detector and the existing long-armed interferometers like LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA.

Detection of the current class of objects long before their rapidly shortening periods enter the bandpass of the current detectors. Another interesting possibility is to look for tight binaries of neutron stars and of white dwarfs that might merge in thousands to millions of years.

 

[sjastro]

It is interesting how these ideas develop with time.
The germ for this idea goes back to 1922 with the Stern-Gerlach experiment which showed there was a gaping hole in QM which led to the introduction of quantum spin into the theory.

The table top device is based on the Stern-Gerlach interferometer.
The Atom Chip Lab - BEC2 - Stern-Gerlach Interferometer