Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 103, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.075017
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- Crown Photonics Center
- ICORE-Israeli excellence center Circle of Light
- Israeli Science Foundation
- Israeli Ministry of Science Technology and Space
- European Research Council [616919]
- BSF
- ERC
- ISF
- Minerva Foundation
- German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)
- Serge Research Award
- Ariane de Rothschild Women Doctoral Program
- European Research Council (ERC) [616919] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The study proposes and experimentally demonstrates a method for detecting a light scalar dark matter field by probing temporal oscillations of fundamental constants in an atomic optical transition. Utilizing dynamic decoupling in a tabletop setting, model-independent bounds on frequency variations of α and m(e) up to the MHz scale are obtained, constraining the parameter space of light scalar DM field models. The study suggests that the proposed method could complement or even compete with gravitational probes of light scalar DM, given the ability to directly observe the oscillatory behavior of coherent DM and potential future experimental improvements.
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for detection of a light scalar dark matter (DM) field through probing temporal oscillations of fundamental constants in an atomic optical transition. Utilizing the quantum information notion of dynamic decoupling (DD) in a tabletop setting, we are able to obtain model-independent bounds on variations of alpha and m(e) at frequencies up to the MHz scale. We interpret our results to constrain the parameter space of light scalar DM field models. We consider the generic case, where the couplings of the DM field to the photon and the electron are independent, as well as the case of a relaxion DM model, including the scenario of a DM boson star centered around Earth. Given the particular nature of DD, allowing one to directly observe the oscillatory behavior of coherent DM and considering future experimental improvements, we conclude that our proposed method could be complimentary to, and possibly competitive with, gravitational probes of light scalar DM.
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