Signatures of Ultralight Dark Matter in Space-Based Laser Interferometers
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学);International Center for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific(亚太理论物理中心);School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS(杭州高等研究院基础物理与数学科学学院)
Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) coupled to the Standard Model may effectively induce coherent oscillations of fundamental constants and thereby generate narrow-band signals in precision interferometric experiments. Here we present a systematic study of how these oscillations leave distinctive imprints on space-based laser interferometers, including LISA and Taiji. Starting from the one-way inter-spacecraft link observables, we analyze several instrument-level effects induced by ULDM, including composition-dependent acceleration of test masses, laser-frequency variations associated with cavity-length modulation, refractive-index effects, and clock-related contributions. We then propagate these signals through the standard data processing chain, including time-delay interferometry and clock-noise elimination. We show that the observability of an ULDM-induced effect is determined by the structure of its single-link response. In particular, the ULDM-driven variation in laser frequency appears in the raw link observable with the same form as laser phase noise. As a consequence, it is strongly suppressed in the final interferometry channels. In contrast, signals that possess an explicit directional pattern are not eliminated by this procedure, such as the ULDM-induced oscillations of the test masses. We further construct a local observable that isolates the differential motion between the test mass and the optical bench, and derive its sensitivity to both the dilaton--gluon coupling $d_g$ and the dilaton--electron coupling $d_e$ for LISA, Taiji, and BBO. We find that the local observable yields sensitivities comparable to the standard Michelson interferometer for $d_g$, but better than Michelson channel by three orders of magnitude for $d_e$.
Distinguishing Monochromatic Signals in LISA and Taiji: Ultralight Dark Matter versus Gravitational Waves
School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS(杭州高等研究院基础物理与数学学院);Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院理论物理研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学);International Center for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific(亚太理论物理中心)
Ultralight scalar and axion dark matter detection with atom interferometers
Shandong University of Aeronautics(山东航空学院);Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院精密测量科学与技术创新研究院);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Probing Spin-2 Ultralight Dark Matter with Space-based Gravitational Wave Detectors in the mHz Regime
Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS(杭州高等研究院,中国科学院大学);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家天文台);Ningbo University(宁波大学);Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院理论物理研究所)
Prospects for Direct Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter candidates in deci-Hz Band with IndIGO-D
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics(萨哈核物理研究所);Homi Bhabha National Institute(霍米·巴巴国立研究所);International Centre for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific (ICTP-AP), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学亚太理论物理中心(ICTP-AP));Taiji Laboratory for Gravitational Wave Universe, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学太极引力波宇宙实验室)
Identifying Monochromatic Signals in LISA and Taiji via Spectral Split: Gravitational Waves versus Ultralight Dark Matter
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学);Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS(杭州高等研究院,中国科学院大学);Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院理论物理研究所);International Center for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific(亚太理论物理中心);School of Astronomy and Space Science, UCAS(天文学与空间科学学院,中国科学院大学)
Natural Ultralight Dark Matter: The Quadratic Twin
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University(特拉维夫大学物理与天文学学院);Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science(魏茨曼科学研究所粒子物理与天体物理学系)
Ultralight dark matter detection with trapped-ion interferometry
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院沃尔特·伯克理论物理研究所);Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology(巴塞罗那科学技术高等能源物理研究所);Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)(加泰罗尼亚高级研究学院);Department of Physics, King’s College London(伦敦国王学院物理系);Theoretical Physics Department, CERN(欧洲核子研究中心理论物理部);Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève(日内瓦大学理论物理系)