TY - JOUR AU - Daniel Carney AU - Gordan Krnjaic AU - D. Moore AU - Cindy Regal AU - Gadi Afek AU - Sunil Bhave AU - Benjamin Brubaker AU - Thomas Corbitt AU - Jonathan Cripe AU - Nicole Crisosto AU - Andrew Geraci AU - Sohitri Ghosh AU - Jack Harris AU - Anson Hook AU - Edward Kolb AU - Jonathan Kunjummen AU - Rafael Lang AU - T. Li AU - T. Lin AU - Z. Liu AU - J. Lykken AU - Lorenzo Magrini AU - Jack Manley AU - Nobuyuki Matsumoto AU - Alissa Monte AU - Fernando Monteiro AU - Thomas Purdy AU - C. Riedel AU - Robinjeet Singh AU - Surendra Singh AU - Kanupriya Sinha AU - J. Taylor AU - J. Qin AU - D. Wilson AU - Y. Zhao AB - Numerous astrophysical and cosmological observations are best explained by the existence of dark matter, a mass density which interacts only very weakly with visible, baryonic matter. Searching for the extremely weak signals produced by this dark matter strongly motivate the development of new, ultra-sensitive detector technologies. Paradigmatic advances in the control and readout of massive mechanical systems, in both the classical and quantum regimes, have enabled unprecedented levels of sensitivity. In this white paper, we outline recent ideas in the potential use of a range of solid-state mechanical sensing technologies to aid in the search for dark matter in a number of energy scales and with a variety of coupling mechanisms. BT - Quantum Science and Technology DA - 2021-01 DO - 10.1088/2058-9565/abcfcd IS - 2 N2 - Numerous astrophysical and cosmological observations are best explained by the existence of dark matter, a mass density which interacts only very weakly with visible, baryonic matter. Searching for the extremely weak signals produced by this dark matter strongly motivate the development of new, ultra-sensitive detector technologies. Paradigmatic advances in the control and readout of massive mechanical systems, in both the classical and quantum regimes, have enabled unprecedented levels of sensitivity. In this white paper, we outline recent ideas in the potential use of a range of solid-state mechanical sensing technologies to aid in the search for dark matter in a number of energy scales and with a variety of coupling mechanisms. PB - IOP Publishing PY - 2021 EP - 024002 T2 - Quantum Science and Technology TI - Mechanical quantum sensing in the search for dark matter UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-9565/abcfcd VL - 6 SN - 2058-9565 ER -