ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Hunting for Dark Matter using Magnetically-Levitated Superconductors
Magnetically-levitated superconductors have strong potential to revolutionise inertial sensing and magnetic field sensing. In this project I will develop levitated superconductor sensors with unprecedented sensitivities, and use an array of these sensors to search for well-motivated dark matter candidates in unexplored parameter regimes. The sensors will consist of gram-scale superconducting particles stably confined within anti-Helmholtz-like magnetic traps. I will precisely measure the motion of the levitated particles using superconducting quantum circuits. The particle motion will be highly isolated from unwanted effects of the surroundings, since the particles will levitate far from…
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