Measuring the stability of fundamental constants with a network of clocks

被引：33

作者：

Barontini, G. ^{[1
]}

Blackburn, L. ^{[2
]}

Boyer, V. ^{[1
]}

Butuc-Mayer, F. ^{[3
,4
]}

Calmet, X. ^{[2
]}

Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, J. R. ^{[5
]}

Curtis, E. A. ^{[3
]}

Darquie, B. ^{[6
]}

Dunningham, J. ^{[2
]}

Fitch, N. J. ^{[7
]}

Forgan, E. M. ^{[1
]}

Georgiou, K. ^{[1
]}

Gill, P. ^{[3
]}

Godun, R. M. ^{[3
]}

Goldwin, J. ^{[1
]}

Guarrera, V. ^{[1
]}

Harwood, A. C. ^{[3
]}

Hill, I. R. ^{[3
]}

Hendricks, R. J. ^{[3
]}

Jeong, M. ^{[1
]}

Johnson, M. Y. H. ^{[3
]}

Keller, M. ^{[2
]}

Kozhiparambil Sajith, L. P. ^{[8
,9
]}

Kuipers, F. ^{[2
]}

Margolis, H. S. ^{[3
]}

Mayo, C. ^{[1
]}

Newman, P. ^{[1
]}

Parsons, A. O. ^{[3
]}

Prokhorov, L. ^{[1
]}

Robertson, B. I. ^{[3
]}

Rodewald, J. ^{[7
]}

Safronova, M. S. ^{[10
]}

Sauer, B. E. ^{[7
]}

Schioppo, M. ^{[3
]}

Sherrill, N. ^{[2
]}

Stadnik, Y. V. ^{[11
,12
]}

Szymaniec, K. ^{[3
]}

Tarbutt, M. R. ^{[7
]}

Thompson, R. C. ^{[7
]}

Tofful, A. ^{[3
,7
]}

Tunesi, J. ^{[3
]}

Vecchio, A. ^{[1
]}

Wang, Y. ^{[7
]}

Worm, S. ^{[1
,8
,9
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

[2] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England

[3] Natl Phys Lab, Hampton Rd, Teddington TW11 0LW, Middx, England

[4] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Clarendon Lab, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PU, England

[5] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

[6] Univ Sorbonne Paris Nord, CNRS, Lab Phys Lasers, 99 Ave Jean Baptiste Clement, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France

[7] Imperial Coll London, Blackett Lab, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2AZ, England

[8] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, Newtonstr 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

[9] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany

[10] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[11] Univ Tokyo, Inst Adv Study, Kavli Inst Phys & Math Universe WPI, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778583, Japan

[12] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

来源：

EPJ QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY | 2022年 / 9卷 / 01期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

Variations of fundamental constants; Atomic and molecular clocks; Networks of quantum sensors; Dark matter; Dark energy; Solitons; Quantum gravity; Grand unification theories; Violation of fundamental symmetries; Physics beyond the Standard Model; FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANT; SPACE-TIME VARIATION; ELECTRON MASS-RATIO; STRONG-CP PROBLEM; DARK-MATTER; ACCURACY EVALUATION; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; STATE DETECTION; QUINTESSENCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

D O I：

10.1140/epjqt/s40507-022-00130-5

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

The detection of variations of fundamental constants of the Standard Model would provide us with compelling evidence of new physics, and could lift the veil on the nature of dark matter and dark energy. In this work, we discuss how a network of atomic and molecular clocks can be used to look for such variations with unprecedented sensitivity over a wide range of time scales. This is precisely the goal of the recently launched QSNET project: A network of clocks for measuring the stability of fundamental constants. QSNET will include state-of-the-art atomic clocks, but will also develop next-generation molecular and highly charged ion clocks with enhanced sensitivity to variations of fundamental constants. We describe the technological and scientific aims of QSNET and evaluate its expected performance. We show that in the range of parameters probed by QSNET, either we will discover new physics, or we will impose new constraints on violations of fundamental symmetries and a range of theories beyond the Standard Model, including dark matter and dark energy models.

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