Stable topological defects of light (pseudo)scalar fields can contribute to
the Universe's dark energy and dark matter. Currently the combination of
gravitational and cosmological constraints provides the best limits on such a
possibility. We take an example of domain walls generated by an axion-like
field with a coupling to the spins of standard-model particles, and show that
if the galactic environment contains a network of such walls, terrestrial
experiments aimed at detection of wall-crossing events are realistic. In
particular, a geographically separated but time-synchronized network of
sensitive atomic magnetometers can detect a wall crossing and probe a range of
model parameters currently unconstrained by astrophysical observations and
gravitational experiments.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure; to appear in the PR
