Synergistic efforts between Dark Matter and quantum computing using Qubits

Qubits are the building blocks of quantum computing. More recently, qubits have also demonstrated promising results as a possible dark matter detection technology that could reach the ultralight dark matter parameter space currently unreachable with existing technologies. This is due to qubits' single-photon resolution and sufficiently low dark count rates to observe the elusive dark matter signal. Therefore, the HEP community is finding applications of qubits in fundamental science more and more promising. Similarly, some of the challenges faced by the quantum computing community regarding the impact of cosmic and terrestrial radiation on qubits is the same problem the dark matter community has been working to mitigate for decades with their semiconductor devices. In this context, we will discuss how scientists from the dark matter and quantum computing communities are working together now to solve mutually relevant problems utilizing qubits as sensors.