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The search for dark matter has been performed mainly for weakly interacting massive particles and massive compact halo objects, and the intermediate mass region has not been investigated experimentally. A method to search dark matter with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-23 Akio Kawasaki

We study the quantum limits in an optomechanical sensor based on a detuned high-finesse cavity with a movable mirror. We show that the radiation pressure exerted on the mirror by the light in the detuned cavity induces a modification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olivier Arcizet , Tristan Briant , Antoine Heidmann , Michel Pinard

We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a specially designed superconducting radio frequency cavity, targeting axions with masses $m_a \lesssim 10^{-6} \text{ eV}$. Our approach exploits axion-induced transitions between…

Quantum metrology uses non-classical states, such as Fock states with a specific number of photons, to achieve an advantage over classical sensing methods. Typically, quantum metrological performance can be enhanced by increasing the…

In this paper, we evaluate the potential of multiband gravitational wave observations from a deci-Hz space-based detector and third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors to constrain the properties of dark matter spikes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Divya Tahelyani , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Anand S. Sengupta

There are a number of different strategies to measure the phase shift between two pathways of light more efficiently than suggested by the standard quantum limit. One way is to use highly entangled photons. Another way is to expose photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Lewis A. Clark , Adam Stokes , M. Mubashir Khan , Gangcheng Wang , Almut Beige

A modification of the cavity technique for axion dark matter detection is described in which the cavity is driven with input power instead of being permeated by a static magnetic field. A small fraction of the input power is pumped by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-22 P. Sikivie

The detection and characterization of quantum coherence is of fundamental importance both in the foundations of quantum theory as well as for the rapidly developing field of quantum technologies, where coherence has been linked to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rhea Alexander , Michalis Skotiniotis , Daniel Manzano

Quantum algorithms such as dynamical decoupling can be used to improve the sensitivity of a quantum sensor to a signal while suppressing sensitivity to noise. Atomic clocks are among the most sensitive quantum sensors, with recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 M. H. Zaheer , N. J. Matjelo , D. B. Hume , M. S. Safronova , D. R. Leibrandt

We propose a quantum-enhanced lidar system to estimate a target's radial velocity which employs squeezed and frequency entangled signal and idler beams. We compare its performance against a classical protocol using a coherent state with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Maximilian Reichert , Roberto Di Candia , Moe Z. Win , Mikel Sanz

Quantum sensing and quantum information processing use quantum advantages such as squeezed states that encode a quantity of interest with higher precision and generate quantum correlations to outperform classical methods. In harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Mingjie Xin , Wui Seng Leong , Zilong Chen , Yu Wang , Shau-Yu Lan

Motivated by recent experiments, we study the dynamics of a qubit quadratically coupled to its detector, a damped harmonic oscillator. We use a complex-environment approach, explicitly describing the dynamics of the qubit and the oscillator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-17 I. Serban , E. Solano , F. K. Wilhelm

Quantum coherence is one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics rooted in the superposition principle. Recently it has been demonstrated that it is possible to harvest the quantum coherence from a coherent scalar field. In order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Sugumi Kanno , Akira Matsumura , Jiro Soda

Quantum phase estimation is a central primitive in quantum algorithms and sensing, where performance is governed by the sensitivity of measurement signals to the target parameter. While existing methods have developed increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zikang Jia , Suying Liu , Yulong Dong

Discrete time crystals are non-equilibrium phases of matter in periodically driven systems, characterized by robust subharmonic oscillations and broken discrete time-translation symmetry. Their long-lived coherent dynamics and resilience to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rozhin Yousefjani , Shaikha Al-Naimi , Saif Al-Kuwari , Abolfazl Bayat

Developing a dark matter detector with wide mass tunability is an immensely desirable property, yet it is challenging due to maintaining strong sensitivity. Resonant cavities for dark matter detection have traditionally employed mechanical…

This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the…

We propose a scheme for realizing two-qubit quantum phase gates via an unconventional geometric phase shift with atoms in a cavity. In the scheme the atoms interact simultaneously with a highly detuned cavity mode and a classical field. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Shi-Biao Zheng

Exploiting quantum features allows for estimating external parameters with precisions well beyond the capacity of classical sensors, a phenomenon known as quantum-enhanced precision. Quantum criticality has been identified as a resource for…

The extension of quantum trajectory theory to incorporate realistic imperfections in the measurement of solid-state qubits is important for quantum computation, particularly for the purposes of state preparation and error-correction as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-06 Neil P. Oxtoby , Jay Gambetta , H. M. Wiseman