Dark Matter Searches with Levitated Sensors
Quantum Physics
2024-09-23 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
Motivated by the current interest in employing quantum sensors on Earth and in space to conduct searches for new physics, we provide a perspective on the suitability of large-mass levitated optomechanical systems for observing dark matter signatures. We discuss conservative approaches of recoil detection through spectral analysis of coherently scattered light, enhancements of directional effects due to cross-correlation spectral densities, and the possibility of using quantum superpositions of mesoscopic test particles to measure rare events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.17990,
title = {Dark Matter Searches with Levitated Sensors},
author = {Eva Kilian and Markus Rademacher and Jonathan M. H. Gosling and Julian H. Iacoponi and Fiona Alder and Marko Toroš and Antonio Pontin and Chamkaur Ghag and Sougato Bose and Tania S. Monteiro and P. F. Barker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17990},
year = {2024}
}
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12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table