Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics

Name: Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics
Start: 2023-06-05T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-06-09T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Jun 5 – 9, 2023

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

America/Toronto timezone

Tania Framst

[email protected]

Contribution List

1. Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics overview

Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)

6/5/23, 9:15 AM

ZOOM: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95722860808?pwd=REYwSDdiK3pFamRJcjJwOW5FV1RPZz09

2. Simulating one-dimensional quantum chromodynamics on a quantum computer: Real-time evolutions of tetra- and pentaquarks

Christine Muschik (University of Waterloo)

6/5/23, 10:30 AM

ZOOM: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95722860808?pwd=REYwSDdiK3pFamRJcjJwOW5FV1RPZz09

3. From the tabletop to the Big Bang: Analogue false vacuum decay from vacuum initial conditions

Alex Jenkins (University College London (UCL))

6/5/23, 11:15 AM

ZOOM: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95722860808?pwd=REYwSDdiK3pFamRJcjJwOW5FV1RPZz09

4. Five short talks - see description for talk titles

Barbara Soda (Perimeter Institute), Dalila Pirvu (Perimeter Institute), Kate Brown (Newcastle University), Leonardo Solidoro (University of Nottingham), Pietro Smaniotto (University of Nottingham)

6/5/23, 2:00 PM

Bubble nucleation in a cold spin 1 gas (Kate Brown); Bubbles live fast and stick together (Dalila Pirvu); Superfluid helium vortex flow: Experimental realization (Pietro Smaniotto); Superfluid helium vortex flow: Surface reconstruction (Leonardo Solidoro); Acceleration-induced effects in stimulated light-matter interactions (Barbara...

7. First observations of false vacuum decay in a BEC

Ian Moss (Newcastle University)

6/5/23, 3:30 PM

https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95722860808?pwd=REYwSDdiK3pFamRJcjJwOW5FV1RPZz09

6. Building Quantum Simulators for QuFTs

Jorg Schmiedmayer (Technical University of Vienna)

6/5/23, 4:15 PM

ZOOM: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95722860808?pwd=REYwSDdiK3pFamRJcjJwOW5FV1RPZz09

26. Stability of quantised vortices in two-component condensates

Sam Patrick (Kings College London)

6/6/23, 9:00 AM

8. Language models for simulating the dynamics of quantum systems

Juan Carrasquilla (Vector Institute)

6/6/23, 10:30 AM

9. Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor

Maria Spiropulu (California Institute of Technology)

6/6/23, 11:15 AM

I will discuss our work ("Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor", Nature) on interrogating a two-dimensional gravity dual quantum system on-chip, and implications on future exploration of this type. I will also address comments/objections raised recently in the literature (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15423)

10. Fireslides

6/6/23, 2:00 PM

11. Panel Discussion: Open Questions in Early Universe

Hiranya Peiris (University College, London), Jonathan Braden (CITA), Katherine Mack (Perimeter Institute), Latham Boyle (Perimeter Institute / University of Waterloo), Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute & York University)

6/6/23, 4:00 PM

12. Mechanical rotation as a source for waves amplification and quantum entanglement

Maria Braidotti (University of Glasgow)

6/7/23, 9:00 AM

13. Probing the Vacuum with Continuous Unruh Detectors

Cisco Gooding (University of Nottingham)

6/7/23, 10:30 AM

14. Typicality and quantum thermalisation of interacting spinless fermions

Gregoire Ithier (Royal Holloway)

6/7/23, 11:15 AM

15. Five short talks - see description for talk titles

Konstantinos Konstantinou (University of Cambridge), Liam Farrell (McMaster University), Shiqian Hu (King's College, London), Fumika Suzuki (Los Alamos National Lab)

6/7/23, 2:00 PM

Towards an ultracold atom quantum simulator of the false vacuum decay (Konstantinos Konstantinou); Regge pole description of scattering by dirty black holes (Shiqian Hu); Quantum catastrophes and Hawking corrections (Liam Farrell); Numerical simulation of Kibble-Zurek mechanism with Landau-Ginzburg dynamics (Fumika Suzuki)

16. Panel Discussion: Open questions in Black Holes

Ian Moss (Newcastle University), Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute), Ruth Gregory (King's College London), Sabrina Pasterski (Perimeter Institute), William Unruh (University of British Columbia)

6/7/23, 4:00 PM

17. Analogue quasinormal mode oscillations of optical solitons

Friedrich Koenig (University of St Andrews)

6/8/23, 9:00 AM

18. How Quantum Field Simulators can address Quark Gluon Plasma and Cosmoloy inspired Questions

Markus Oberthaler (Heidelberg University)

6/8/23, 10:30 AM

19. Measurement of Penrose superradiance in a photon superfluid using off-axis digital holography

Radivoje Prizia (University of Nottingham)

6/8/23, 11:15 AM

20. Analogue gravity with superfluid optomechanics

Xavier Rojas (University of London)