Precision metrology meets cosmology: improved constraints on ultralight dark matter from atom-cavity frequency comparisons

CJ Kennedy, E Oelker, JM Robinson, T Bothwell… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We conduct frequency comparisons between a state-of-the-art strontium optical lattice clock,
a cryogenic crystalline silicon cavity, and a hydrogen maser to set new bounds on the …

Mechanical quantum sensing in the search for dark matter

D Carney, G Krnjaic, DC Moore… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerous astrophysical and cosmological observations are best explained by the existence
of dark matter, a mass density which interacts only very weakly with visible, baryonic matter …

New horizons: Scalar and vector ultralight dark matter

D Antypas, A Banerjee, C Bartram… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass
scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative …

Search for transient variations of the fine structure constant and dark matter using fiber-linked optical atomic clocks

BM Roberts, P Delva, A Al-Masoudi… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We search for transient variations of the fine structure constant using data from a European
network of fiber-linked optical atomic clocks. By searching for coherent variations in the …

Broadband thermomechanically limited sensing with an optomechanical accelerometer

F Zhou, Y Bao, R Madugani, DA Long, JJ Gorman… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Acceleration measurement is widely used in commercial, scientific, and defense
applications, but the resolution and accuracy achievable for demanding applications is …

Search for dark-matter-induced oscillations of fundamental constants using molecular spectroscopy

R Oswald, A Nevsky, V Vogt, S Schiller, NL Figueroa… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
A possible implication of an ultralight dark matter field interacting with the standard model
degrees of freedom is oscillations of fundamental constants. Here, we establish direct …

Improved bounds on ultralight scalar dark matter in the radio-frequency range

O Tretiak, X Zhang, NL Figueroa, D Antypas, A Brogna… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We present a search for fundamental constant oscillations in the range 20 kHz–100 MHz
that may arise within models for ultralight dark matter (UDM). Using two independent optical …

Super-Nyquist ultralight dark matter searches with broadband atom gradiometers

L Badurina, A Beniwal, C McCabe - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Atom gradiometers have emerged as compelling broadband probes of scalar ultralight dark
matter (ULDM) candidates that oscillate with frequencies between approximately 10-2 Hz …

Search for ultralight dark matter with spectroscopy of radio-frequency atomic transitions

X Zhang, A Banerjee, M Leyser, G Perez, S Schiller… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
The effects of scalar and pseudoscalar ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) were searched
for by comparing the frequency of a quartz oscillator to that of a hyperfine-structure transition …

An experiment for observing quantum gravity phenomena using twin table-top 3D interferometers

SM Vermeulen, L Aiello, A Ejlli… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Theories of quantum gravity based on the holographic principle predict the existence of
quantum fluctuations of distance measurements that accumulate and exhibit correlations …