Undergrad Detecting Gravitons?

[sbrothy]

I seem to notice a buildup of papers like this:

Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing. (OK, old one.)

Toward graviton detection via photon-graviton quantum state conversion

Is this akin to “we’re soon gonna put string theory to the test”, or are these legit?

Mind, I’m not expecting anyone to read the papers and explain them to me, but if one of you educated people already have an opinion I’d like to hear it.

If not please ignore me.

EDIT: I strongly suspect it’s bunk but there’s always hope. :)

EDIT:

Effective Field Theory Calculation of LIGO-like Compton Scattering and Experiment Proposal for Graviton Detection

Gravitational Wave and Quantum Graviton Interferometer Arm Detection of Gravitons

The opposite viewpoint:

Infeasibility of Graviton Detection as Cosmic Censorship

And some general comments. I'll start with this one:

Comments on graviton detection

EDIT2: Just for the record @phinds ”liked” the post before the EDITs. It’s a bad habit editing my posts but I don’t want to bump them nedslessly either.

EDIT3: So I use tricks like luring people back in.

 

[sbrothy]

Oh, the thread is the first one anyway.

Well then, the comments paper above, although trying to strike an optimistic tone in it’s conclusion, makes a rather convincing case (to my uneducated ears) for the opposite. By which I mean the search will likely be long and arduous.