Abstract
The applications of spin-based quantum sensors to measurements probing fundamental physics are surveyed. Experimental methods and technologies developed for spin-based quantum information science have rapidly advanced in recent years and these tools enable increasingly precise control and measurement of spin dynamics. Theories of beyond-the-standard-model physics predict, for example, discrete-symmetry-violating electromagnetic moments correlated with particle spins, exotic spin-dependent forces, and coupling of spins to ultralight bosonic dark-matter fields. Spin-based quantum sensors can be used to search for these myriad phenomena and offer a methodology for tests of fundamental physics that is complementary to particle colliders and large-scale particle detectors. Areas of technological development that can significantly enhance the sensitivity of spin-based quantum sensors to new physics are highlighted.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 010101 |
| Journal | Physical Review A |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2023 |
Funding
The authors appreciate the insightful comments and suggestions on the manuscript from Nicolò Crescini, Reuben Shuker, Andrew Jayich, and Morgan Mitchell. The authors are also sincerely grateful to Dong Sheng, Shaobo Zhang, and Zheng-Tian Lu for bringing the error in previously published versions of Fig. to our attention. The work of D.F.J.K. was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHYS-2110388. The work of D.B. was supported in part by the Cluster of Excellence “Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions, and Structure of Matter” (PRISMA 2118/1) funded by the German Research Foundation within the German Excellence Strategy (Project No. 39083149) and also in part upon work from COST Action COSMIC WISPers CA21106, supported by European Cooperation in Science and Technology. A.A.G. was supported in part by NSF grants PHY-1806686 and PHY-1806671, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation and ONR Grant N00014-18-1-2370. J.T.S. was supported the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contracts DE-SC0019015 and DE-SC0019455. A.O.S. acknowledges support from the Simons Foundation Grant No. 641332, the National Science Foundation CAREER Grant No. PHY-2145162, the John Templeton Foundation Grant No. 60049570, and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics program under the QuantISED program, FWP 100495. The authors appreciate the insightful comments and suggestions on the manuscript from Nicolò Crescini, Reuben Shuker, Andrew Jayich, and Morgan Mitchell. The authors are also sincerely grateful to Dong Sheng, Shaobo Zhang, and Zheng-Tian Lu for bringing the error in previously published versions of Fig. 2 to our attention. The work of D.F.J.K. was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHYS-2110388. The work of D.B. was supported in part by the Cluster of Excellence “Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions, and Structure of Matter” (PRISMA + EXC 2118/1) funded by the German Research Foundation within the German Excellence Strategy (Project No. 39083149) and also in part upon work from COST Action COSMIC WISPers CA21106, supported by European Cooperation in Science and Technology. A.A.G. was supported in part by NSF grants PHY-1806686 and PHY-1806671, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the W.M. Keck Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation and ONR Grant N00014-18-1-2370. J.T.S. was supported the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contracts DE-SC0019015 and DE-SC0019455. A.O.S. acknowledges support from the Simons Foundation Grant No. 641332, the National Science Foundation CAREER Grant No. PHY-2145162, the John Templeton Foundation Grant No. 60049570, and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics program under the QuantISED program, FWP 100495.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics