Directional Detection of Dark Matter using Spectroscopy of Crystal Defects

Surjeet Rajendran,1 Nicholas Zobrist,2 Alexander O. Sushkov,3, 4 Ronald Walsworth,5 and Mikhail Lukin6 1Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 2Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA 3Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA 4Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA 5Department of Physics, Harvard University, and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138 6Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Dated: May 30, 2017)