Conveners
Superconducting cavities, materials, and quantum technology for detection of weakly-coupled particles: Session 1
- Yoni Khan
Superconducting cavities, materials, and quantum technology for detection of weakly-coupled particles: Session 2
- Caterina Braggio
Superconducting cavities, materials, and quantum technology for detection of weakly-coupled particles: Session 3
- Claudio Gatti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
The axion is a hypothetical particle that may solve two problems in particle physics & cosmology, the Strong-CP problem and the nature of dark matter. The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX), which started at LLNL in the mid-1990s, is the DOE Flagship search for these particles. The experiment uses tunable resonant cavities in a large static magnetic field to enhance the conversion of axions...
Haloscopes consisting of a microwave cavity with a high quality factor (Q) connected to low-noise electronics have been deployed to detect wavelike axions and dark photons. But the dark matter mass is unknown, so haloscopes must be tunable to search through the photon coupling vs. mass parameter space. Therefore, the scan rate for haloscope experiments is a crucial figure of merit and is...
At ultra-low temperatures (ULT) macroscopic quantum states form, such as superfluids, that have unique potential as quantum sensors for rare interactions. The QUEST-DMC QTFP project is deploying this technology at two sites capable of reaching ULT, Royal Holloway (RHUL) and Lancaster University (ULANC), both members of the European Microkelvin Platform, EMP (https://emplatform.eu/). QUEST-DMC...
Axion Dark Matter, Dark Photon Dark matter and Millicharged particle dark matter are some of the simplest and popular models of dark matter and are looked for in various experiments. Yet, there continue to exist inaccessible regions in interaction and mass parameter space for these models. In this talk I propose a new way to detect the tiny electric fields produced by these dark matter...
Quantum sensors offer the most promising way to detect a number of light, weakly coupled particles, such as gravitons or axions. Cavities, as well as other optomechanical systems, are current realizations of such sensors in operation. I will discuss how a theoretical tool from quantum optics, the input-output formalism, allows calculation and understanding of the sensitivity of these...
Until fault-tolerance becomes implementable at scale, quantum computing will heavily rely on noise mitigation techniques. Entering the era of quantum utility and performing complex enough quantum simulation requires the use of efficient and scalable noise mitigation strategies.
While methods such as zero noise extrapolation with probabilistic error amplification (ZNE-PEA) and probabilistic...
I will report about a haloscope experiment in which a hybrid surfaced (copper-NbTi) cavity immersed in a 2 T-magnetic field has been readout by a transmon-based single microwave photon detector (SMPD). The cavity frequency could be varied to probe for different axion masses around 30.5 microelectronvolt by means of a nanopositioner, and I will report about the upper limit that we obtained on...
We introduce the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) conceptual design and science program. BREAD is a dish antenna experiment based on a coaxial cylindrical reflector design which converts axions or dark photons into ordinary photons and focuses them onto a small sensor. This unique geometry is well matched to the requirements of superconducting quantum sensors since...
