Snowmass white paper: Light dark matter direct detection at the interface with condensed matter physics

A Mitridate, T Trickle, Z Zhang, KM Zurek - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
Direct detection experiments for light (sub-GeV) dark matter are making enormous leaps in
reaching previously unexplored theory space. The need for accurate characterizations of …

Searching for GUT-scale QCD axions and monopoles with a high-voltage capacitor

ME Tobar, AV Sokolov, A Ringwald, M Goryachev - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The QCD axion has been postulated to exist because it solves the strong-CP problem.
Furthermore, if it exists axions should be created in the early Universe and could account for …

Dark matter detection using nuclear magnetization in magnet with hyperfine interaction

S Chigusa, T Moroi, K Nakayama, T Sichanugrist - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We consider the possibility to detect cosmic light dark matter (DM), ie, axions and dark
photons, of mass∼ 10-6 eV and∼ 10-4 eV, by magnetic excitation in a magnet with strong …

Axion topology in photonic crystal domain walls

C Devescovi, A Morales-Pérez, Y Hwang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Axion insulators are 3D magnetic topological insulators supporting hinge states and
quantized magnetoelectric effects, recently proposed for detecting dark-matter axionic …

Axion detection with phonon-polaritons revisited

DJE Marsh, JI McDonald, AJ Millar, J Schütte-Engel - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In the presence of a background magnetic field, axion dark matter induces an electric field
and can thus excite phonon-polaritons in suitable materials. We revisit the calculation of the …

Fermi-arc metals

M Breitkreiz, PW Brouwer - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
We predict a novel metallic state of matter that emerges in a Weyl-semimetal superstructure
with spatially varying Weyl-node positions. In the new state, the Weyl nodes are stretched …

Comparing instrument spectral sensitivity of dissimilar electromagnetic haloscopes to axion dark matter and high frequency gravitational waves

ME Tobar, CA Thomson, WM Campbell, A Quiskamp… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is known that haloscopes that search for dark matter axions via the axion-photon anomaly
are also sensitive to gravitational radiation through the inverse Gertsenshtein effect …

Poynting vector controversy in axion modified electrodynamics

ME Tobar, BT McAllister, M Goryachev - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The most sensitive haloscopes that search for axion dark matter through the two photon
electromagnetic anomaly convert axions into photons through the mixing of axions with a …

Cosmological effects of Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking on QCD axion dark matter

KS Jeong, K Matsukawa, S Nakagawa… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We study cosmological effects of explicit Peccei-Quinn breaking on the QCD axion dark
matter. We find that the axion abundance decreases or increases significantly depending on …

Detecting hidden photon dark matter using the direct excitation of transmon qubits

S Chen, H Fukuda, T Inada, T Moroi, T Nitta… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We propose a novel dark matter detection method utilizing the excitation of superconducting
transmon qubits. Assuming the hidden photon dark matter of a mass of O (10) μ eV, the …