21st Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

Session

Thursday Morning Session

12 Nov 2026, 09:00

University of Western Australia

27. Quantum Error Correction-like Noise Mitigation for Wave-like Dark Matter Searches with Quantum Sensors

Hajime Fukuda (University of Tokyo)

12/11/2026, 09:00

Oral Presentation

We propose a quantum error correction-like noise mitigation protocol for enhancing the sensitivity of wave-like dark matter searches with quantum sensors. Our protocol uses multiple sensors to mitigate the noise affecting each sensor individually, allowing for the suppression of excitation noise that is parallel to the dark matter signal. We demonstrate that our protocol can improve the...

93. The Twisted "Anyon" Cavity: Using Electromagnetic Helicity to Search for Ultralight Dark Matter

Jeremy Bourhill

12/11/2026, 09:15

Oral Presentation

Twisted, helical "anyon" cavity resonators support bulk electromagnetic modes with nonzero helicity, a chiral property arising from the net parallel or antiparallel alignment of the eigenmode’s electric and magnetic fields. This property allows a single, monochromatic mode to couple directly to dark matter axions and convert them into amplitude-modulation sidebands via the axion-photon chiral...

103. Status of the BREAD axion search experiments

Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

12/11/2026, 09:30

Invited Presentation

The Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) concept employs a novel coaxial dish antenna geometry to convert axions to photons in the background magnetic field of a large solenoid magnet. This detector geometry provides a scalable approach to detection of axions in mass ranges above the reach of the resonant cavity technique employed by the ADMX, HAYSAC and CAPP...

11. Targeting the QCD axion with novel cavities and qubit-based electronics

Aaron Chou

12/11/2026, 09:50

Invited Presentation

Discovering the QCD axion will require a fleet of high-Q cavities, large magnets and cryostats, and background-free single photon detectors. In this talk, I will report on the successful operation of a novel dielectric cavity that is tunable over a 20% frequency range while maintaining high quality factor. Coupled with a qubit-based single microwave photon counter with similarly large...

106. ORGAN: Current Status and Future Directions of Australia's Axion Haloscope Experiment

Aaron Quiskamp` (UWA)

12/11/2026, 11:20

Invited Presentation

The ORGAN (Oscillating Resonant Group AxioN) Experiment is Australia's axion haloscope program, searching for high-mass axion dark matter through a collaboration spanning the University of Western Australia and Swinburne University of Technology. Data-taking campaigns to date have placed leading exclusion limits on axion-photon coupling across the 25–112 μeV mass range, and the collaboration...

131. High-Q Cavities and Quantum Sensing Platforms for Fundamental Physics at SQMS

Bianca Giaccone

12/11/2026, 11:40

Invited Presentation

The SQMS Center develops state-of-the-art superconducting and quantum technologies for ultra-sensitive searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. By combining superconducting radio-frequency cavities with quantum devices, SQMS is pursuing a broad experimental program targeting axion and dark photon dark matter, high-frequency gravitational waves, and other weakly interacting particles....