https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11089-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Searching for dark matter axions with Berry phase
1
Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, via G. Paolo II, Stecca 9, I, 84084, Fisciano, Italy
2
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Gruppo collegato di Salerno, Naples, Italy
3
Department of Physics and Prairie Particle Physics Institute, University of Regina, S4S 0A2, Regina, SASK, Canada
Received:
5
January
2022
Accepted:
30
November
2022
Published online:
8
December
2022
We discuss novel aspects of the interaction of axions-like particles (ALP) with superfluids, superconductors in particular, and determine an induced Berry phase that is topologically singular and contributes to the generation of string-like structures. The latter are similar to vortices in superfluids. We suggest that measuring the currents generated by the Berry phase of ALP axions would enable the study of low mass regions of the ALP spectrum otherwise unobservable.
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