{"id":200899,"date":"2024-12-06T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/physicists-propose-a-quantum-optomechanical-solution-to-dark-matter-detection"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:43:23","slug":"physicists-propose-a-quantum-optomechanical-solution-to-dark-matter-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/physicists-propose-a-quantum-optomechanical-solution-to-dark-matter-detection","title":{"rendered":"Physicists propose a quantum\u2013optomechanical solution to dark-matter detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-propose-a-quantum-optomechanical-solution-to-dark-matter-detection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary collaboration between condensed-matter, quantum-optics and particle physicists has the potential to crack the search for low-mass dark matter. The proposed quantum detector builds on EQUS studies of elementary excitations in superfluid helium and advances in opto-mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Led by EQUS Research Fellow Dr. Chris Baker (UQ), study proposes direct detection of low-mass dark matter via its interactions with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superfluid+helium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superfluid helium<\/a> confined in an optomechanical cavity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.110.043005\" target=\"_blank\">Optomechanical dark matter instrument for direct detection<\/a>\u201d was published in <i>Physical Review D<\/i> in August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary collaboration between condensed-matter, quantum-optics and particle physicists has the potential to crack the search for low-mass dark matter. The proposed quantum detector builds on EQUS studies of elementary excitations in superfluid helium and advances in opto-mechanics. Led by EQUS Research Fellow Dr. Chris Baker (UQ), study proposes direct detection of low-mass dark matter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}