Light dark matter detection leveraging nonlinear optics and laser interferometry

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Abstract

We propose a novel experimental method for detecting light dark matter leveraging nonlinear electro-optical material in a laser interferometer. A high-precision resonant interferometry scheme can probe dark matter-induced oscillatory modifications to the electromagnetic wave's dispersion relation in the nonlinear medium. We show that this method enables exploring uncharted parameter space of axion and dark photon dark matter of masses 40 micro-eV and above, a challenging parameter space for currently existing methods.

*This work was supported by the Argonne National Laboratory under Award No. 2F60042; the Army Research Laboratory MAQP program under Contract No. W911NF-19–2-0181; the DOE fusion program under Award No. DE-SC0021654; and the University of Maryland Quantum Technology Center. S.R. is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. PHY-1818899. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS) under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. S.R. is also supported by the DOE under a QuantISED grant for MAGIS, and the Simons Investigator Award No. 827042.

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Presenters

  • Reza Ebadi

    • University of Maryland, College Park

Authors

  • Reza Ebadi

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • David E Kaplan

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Surjeet Rajendran

    • The Johns Hopkins University

  • Ronald L Walsworth

    • University of Maryland, College Park