Quantum Detectors and their Applications in Nuclear Physics

The tremendous worldwide effort towards the development of practical quantum computing has already had a profound effect on the landscape of experimental physics. The unprecedented sensitivity of these quantum systems have allowed for the construction and operation of sensors that allow us access to experiments which were previously thought to be unfeasible. For more than a decade, nuclear physics has seen rapid growth in the use of low-temperature quantum sensors for the detection of low-energy radiation, particularly in our search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The current approaches primarily employ magnetic microcalorimeters (MMCs), superconducting tunnel junctions (STJs), and transition edge sensors (TES’). In this talk, I will highlight a few of the experiments that utilize these technologies and give an outlook on where we might be headed for applications of quantum sensing in NP.