We propose new ideas to directly search for light dark matter, such as the axion or the dark photon, by using magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds. If the dark matter couples to the electron spin, it affects the evolution of the Bloch vectors consisting of the spin triplet states, which may be detected through several magnetometry techniques. We give several concrete examples with the use of dc and ac magnetometry and estimate the sensitivity on dark matter couplings.
@article{arxiv.2302.12756,
title = {Light Dark Matter Search with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamonds},
author = {So Chigusa and Masashi Hazumi and Ernst David Herbschleb and Norikazu Mizuochi and Kazunori Nakayama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12756},
year = {2025}
}