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We suggest a new application for the long-baseline and high powered cavities in a laser-interferometric gravitational-wave~(GW) detector to search for WISPs (weakly interacting sub-eV particles), such as a hidden U(1) gauge boson, called…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-29 Yuki Inoue , Koji Ishidoshiro

Weakly interactive slim particles (WISPs), including the QCD axion, axion-like particles (ALPs), and hidden photons, are considered to be strong candidates for the dark matter carrier particle. The microwave cavity experiment WISPDMX is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-11 Le Hoang Nguyen , Dieter Horns , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

We propose a novel broadband strategy to search for axions by leveraging observables controlled by the axion field squared. We present a practical implementation of this concept for probing the axion--photon coupling. This is done by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Angelo Esposito , Kin Chung Fong , Lam Hui

We revisit birefringence effects associated with the evolution of the polarization of light as it propagates through axion dark matter or the background of a passing gravitational wave (GW). We demonstrate that this can be described by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Camilo García-Cely , Luca Marsili , Andreas Ringwald , Aaron D. Spector

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In Phys.Rev.Lett. 123 (2019) no.11, 111301, we have proposed a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity. If the scheme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

We propose a novel experiment to search for axion dark matter which differentiates the phase velocities of the left and right-handed polarized photons. Our optical cavity measures the difference of the resonant frequencies between two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In this Letter, a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity is proposed. If the scheme is applied to the Fabry-P\'erot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-01 Koji Nagano , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

We demonstrate that a photonic gauge potential, which arises from the phase degree of freedom in dynamic refractive-index modulation and hence is achormatic, can be used to achieve a broadband optical switch using the configuration of a…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-02 Ian A. D. Williamson , Shanhui Fan

We propose a novel modification to the optical benches of space-based gravitational wave detectors (SGWDs) to enable the detection of axion-like dark matter (ALDM)-induced birefringence without altering the polarization of inter-spacecraft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Run-Min Yao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Qing-Guo Huang

Optical interferometers increasingly use single-mode fibers as spatial filters to convert varying wavefront distortion into intensity fluctuations which can be monitored for accurate calibration of fringe amplitudes. Here I propose using an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. D. Monnier

We propose using interferometry of circularly polarized light as a mechanism by which to test for axion dark matter. These interferometers differ from standard interferometers only by the addition of a few quarter waveplates to preserve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 William DeRocco , Anson Hook

In this work, we propose polarimetry experiments to search for low-mass (sub-eV) bosonic field dark matter, including axions and axion-like particles. We show that a polarimetry configuration consisting of a thick birefringent solid inside…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Aldo Ejlli , Sander M. Vermeulen , Eyal Schwartz , Lorenzo Aiello , Hartmut Grote

We discuss the experimental techniques used to date for measuring the changes in polarization state of a laser produced by a strong transverse magnetic field acting in a vacuum. We point out the likely artifacts that can arise in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-10 Christopher C. Davis , Joseph Harris , Robert W. Gammon , Igor I. Smolyaninov , Kyuman Cho

In the presence of an external magnetic field the axion and the photon mix. In particular, the dispersion relation of a longitudinal plasmon always crosses the dispersion relation of the axion (for small axion masses), thus leading to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrea Caputo , Alexander J. Millar , Edoardo Vitagliano

Axion dark matter can satisfy the conditions needed to account for all of the dark matter and solve the strong CP problem. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is a direct dark matter search using a haloscope to convert axions to photons…

The cavity haloscope has been employed to detect microwave photons resonantly converted from invisible cosmic axions under a strong magnetic field. In this scheme, the axion-photon conversion power has been formulated to be valid for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-15 Dongok Kim , Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Younggeun Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

We propose a new method to detect observational appearance of Dark Matter axions. The method utilizes observations of neutron stars (NSs) in radio. It is based on the conversion of axions to photons in strong magnetic fields of NSs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

Quantum sensors based on the superposition of neutral atoms are promising for sensing the nature of dark matter (DM). In this study, we utilize the Stern-Gerlach (SG) interferometer configuration to seek a novel method for the detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-24 Milad Hajebrahimi , Hassan Manshouri , Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei

We consider birefringent (i.e., polarization changing) scattering of x-ray photons at the superposition of two optical laser beams of ultra-high intensity and study the resonant contributions of axions or axion-like particles, which could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Stefan Evans , Ralf Schützhold

Axions are hypothetical pseudo-Nambu Goldstone bosons that could explain the observed cold dark matter density and solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Haloscope experiments commonly employ resonant cavities to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-21 Jacob Egge , Manuel Meyer