Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics

Jun 5, 2023, 8:30 a.m. → Jun 9, 2023, 5:00 p.m. America/Toronto

PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute & York University), Ruth Gregory (King's College London), Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)

This meeting will bring together researchers from the quantum technology, atomic physics, and fundamental physics communities to discuss how quantum simulation can be used to gain new insight into the physics of black holes and the early Universe. The core program of the workshop is intended to deepen collaboration between the UK-based Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics (QSimFP; https://www.qsimfp.org) consortium and researchers at Perimeter Institute and neighbouring institutions. The week-long conference will consist of broadly-accessible talks on work within the consortium and work within the broader community of researchers interested in quantum simulation, as well as a poster session and ample time for discussion and collaboration

pirsa.org/C23019

Territorial Land Acknowledgement

Perimeter Institute acknowledges that it is situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples.

Perimeter Institute is located on the Haldimand Tract. After the American Revolution, the tract was granted by the British to the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation as compensation for their role in the war and for the loss of their traditional lands in upstate New York. Of the 950,000 acres granted to the Haudenosaunee, less than 5 percent remains Six Nations land. Only 6,100 acres remain Mississaugas of the Credit land. 

We thank the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Neutral peoples for hosting us on their land.

Monday, June 5

8:30 a.m. → 9:15 a.m. Registration & Light Breakfast

9:15 a.m. → 10:00 a.m. Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics overview

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

Speaker: Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)

10:00 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. → 11:15 a.m. Simulating one-dimensional quantum chromodynamics on a quantum computer: Real-time evolutions of tetra- and pentaquarks

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

Speaker: Christine Muschik (University of Waterloo)

11:15 a.m. → 12:00 p.m. From the tabletop to the Big Bang: Analogue false vacuum decay from vacuum initial conditions

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

Speaker: Alex Jenkins (University College London (UCL))

12:00 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Collaboration

2:00 p.m. → 3:00 p.m. Five short talks - see description for talk titles

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 Soda)

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

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

3:00 p.m. → 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. → 4:15 p.m. First observations of false vacuum decay in a BEC

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

Speaker: Ian Moss (Newcastle University)

4:15 p.m. → 5:00 p.m. Building Quantum Simulators for QuFTs

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

Speaker: Jorg Schmiedmayer (Technical University of Vienna)

6:00 p.m. → 8:00 p.m. KW Escape room & pizza night - Sign up here: https://forms.gle/RBTMPU3DExGu1SD26

Registration is full.

Tuesday, June 6

8:30 a.m. → 9:00 a.m. Light breakfast available

9:00 a.m. → 9:45 a.m. Stability of quantised vortices in two-component condensates

Speaker: Sam Patrick (Kings College London)

9:45 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. → 11:15 a.m. Language models for simulating the dynamics of quantum systems

Speaker: Juan Carrasquilla (Vector Institute)

11:15 a.m. → 12:00 p.m. Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor

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)

Speaker: Maria Spiropulu (California Institute of Technology)

12:00 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Collaboration

2:00 p.m. → 3:00 p.m. Fireslides

3:00 p.m. → 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break and Pre-Panel Brainstorming

4:00 p.m. → 5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Open Questions in Early Universe

Speakers: 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)

Wednesday, June 7

8:30 a.m. → 9:00 a.m. LIght breakfast available

9:00 a.m. → 9:45 a.m. Mechanical rotation as a source for waves amplification and quantum entanglement

Speaker: Maria Braidotti (University of Glasgow)

9:45 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. → 11:15 a.m. Probing the Vacuum with Continuous Unruh Detectors

Speaker: Cisco Gooding (University of Nottingham)

11:15 a.m. → 12:00 p.m. Typicality and quantum thermalisation of interacting spinless fermions

Speaker: Gregoire Ithier (Royal Holloway)

12:00 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Collaboration

2:00 p.m. → 3:00 p.m. Five short talks - see description for talk titles

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)

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

3:00 p.m. → 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break and Pre-Panel Brainstorming

4:00 p.m. → 5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Open questions in Black Holes

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

6:00 p.m. → 8:00 p.m. Banquet

Thursday, June 8

8:30 a.m. → 9:00 a.m. Light breakfast available

9:00 a.m. → 9:45 a.m. Analogue quasinormal mode oscillations of optical solitons

Speaker: Friedrich Koenig (University of St Andrews)

9:45 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. → 11:15 a.m. How Quantum Field Simulators can address Quark Gluon Plasma and Cosmoloy inspired Questions

Speaker: Markus Oberthaler (Heidelberg University)

11:15 a.m. → 12:00 p.m. Measurement of Penrose superradiance in a photon superfluid using off-axis digital holography

Speaker: Radivoje Prizia (University of Nottingham)

12:00 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Collaboration

2:00 p.m. → 2:45 p.m. Analogue gravity with superfluid optomechanics

Speaker: Xavier Rojas (University of London)

2:45 p.m. → 3:30 p.m. Modelling bubble nucleation in finite temperature Bose gases

Speaker: Thomas Billam (Newcastle University)

3:30 p.m. → 4:00 p.m. Coffee break

4:00 p.m. → 5:00 p.m. QSimFP Outreach Activities

Speaker: Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)

Friday, June 9

8:30 a.m. → 9:00 a.m. Light breakfast available

9:00 a.m. → 9:45 a.m. Dynamically assisted tunneling

Speaker: Ralf Schuetzhold (Helmholtz-Zentrum)

9:45 a.m. → 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. → 11:15 a.m. Quantum black hole simulator

Speaker: Patrik Svancara (University of Nottingham)

11:15 a.m. → 12:00 p.m. Theory Modelling for the Analogue Unruh Effect

Speaker: Cameron Bunney (University of Nottingham)

12:00 p.m. → 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Collaboration