Detecting dark matter using optically trapped Rydberg atom tweezer arrays
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| author | Chigusa, So Kasamaki, Taiyo Kusano, Toshi Moroi, Takeo Nakayama, Kazunori Ozawa, Naoya Takahashi, Yoshiro Umemoto, Atsuhiro Vutha, Amar |
| author_facet | Chigusa, So Kasamaki, Taiyo Kusano, Toshi Moroi, Takeo Nakayama, Kazunori Ozawa, Naoya Takahashi, Yoshiro Umemoto, Atsuhiro Vutha, Amar |
| contents | A new scheme for detecting wave-like dark matter (DM) using Rydberg atoms is proposed. Recent advances in trapping and manipulating Rydberg atoms make it possible to use Rydberg atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays for DM detection. We propose to prepare a large ensemble of Rydberg atoms and to observe the excitations between Rydberg states by the DM-induced effective electric field. A scan over DM mass is enabled with the use of the Zeeman and diamagnetic shifts of energy levels under an applied external magnetic field. Taking dark-photon DM as an example, we demonstrate that our proposed experiment can have high enough sensitivity to probe previously unexplored regions of the parameter space of dark-photon coupling strengths and masses. |
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| spellingShingle | Detecting dark matter using optically trapped Rydberg atom tweezer arrays Chigusa, So Kasamaki, Taiyo Kusano, Toshi Moroi, Takeo Nakayama, Kazunori Ozawa, Naoya Takahashi, Yoshiro Umemoto, Atsuhiro Vutha, Amar High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Atomic Physics Quantum Physics A new scheme for detecting wave-like dark matter (DM) using Rydberg atoms is proposed. Recent advances in trapping and manipulating Rydberg atoms make it possible to use Rydberg atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays for DM detection. We propose to prepare a large ensemble of Rydberg atoms and to observe the excitations between Rydberg states by the DM-induced effective electric field. A scan over DM mass is enabled with the use of the Zeeman and diamagnetic shifts of energy levels under an applied external magnetic field. Taking dark-photon DM as an example, we demonstrate that our proposed experiment can have high enough sensitivity to probe previously unexplored regions of the parameter space of dark-photon coupling strengths and masses. |
| title | Detecting dark matter using optically trapped Rydberg atom tweezer arrays |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Atomic Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12860 |