Fundamental Physics with Quantum Sensors

The search for new physical laws and particles has largely been driven by the expectation that the new physics lies at high energies with reasonably strong interactions with the standard model. However, the existence of dark matter and dark energy as well as the potential new physics that could be discovered using gravitational waves suggests that there is a strong case to search for phenomena that do not interact much with the standard model. The discovery of such phenomena requires precision sensing. The remarkable advances that have occurred in the field of quantum metrology in the past three decades has made it possible to deploy a wide variety of quantum sensors to detect such ultra-weakly coupled physics. In this talk, I will highlight opportunities to deploy such sensors to detect gravitational waves and dark matter, search for new fundamental forces of nature and test quantum mechanics.