Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics

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

PI/1-100 - Theatre

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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

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.

Participants
  • Abhijit Chakraborty
  • Adam Wilkinson
  • Advait Joshi
  • Afshin Besharat
  • Aggie Branczyk
  • Aida Ahmadzadegan
  • Alex Jenkins
  • Alexandros Karas
  • Alexis BOSSARD
  • Alice Chen
  • Alp Kutlualp
  • Amanda Arteaga
  • Amandeep Singh
  • amir mousavi
  • Andrew Pontzen
  • Angelo Serrecchia
  • Anirban Chowdhury
  • Ankul Prajapati
  • Anna Knoerr
  • Ansh Gupta
  • Ayush Bidlan
  • Barbara Soda
  • Benjamin MacLellan
  • Bianca Dittrich
  • Bingzhi Zhang
  • Bruno Gimenez Umbert
  • Cameron Bunney
  • Christine Muschik
  • Christopher Burgess
  • Cisco Gooding
  • Dalila Pirvu
  • Dan Wohns
  • Ding Jia
  • Duncan O'Dell
  • Eliot Heinrich
  • Emilie Huffman
  • Enrico Olivucci
  • Erik Sorensen
  • Filip Cieciuch
  • Friedrich Koenig
  • Fumika Suzuki
  • Germain Rousseaux
  • Ghazal Geshnizjani
  • Gregoire Ithier
  • Haritha P.E
  • HeeBong Yang
  • Henil Shah
  • Himanshu Sahu
  • Hiranya Peiris
  • Hyo Jung Park
  • Ian Moss
  • ido ido
  • Ivan Cagnani
  • Javier Murillo
  • Jennifer Rubio-Duke
  • Jerome Quintin
  • Jiayue Yang
  • Joanna Majsak
  • Jonathan Braden
  • Jorg Schmiedmayer
  • Jorma Louko
  • JUAN CARLOS OCHOA OLIVERA
  • Kareem Hassaan
  • Kate Brown
  • Katie Mack
  • Konstantinos Konstantinou
  • Leo Parry
  • Leonardo Solidoro
  • Liam Farrell
  • Lior Cohen
  • Marc Schiffer
  • Maria Chiara Braidotti
  • Maria Rosa Preciado
  • MARIA SPIROPULU
  • Markus Oberthaler
  • Matthew Johnson
  • Matthew Kenworthy
  • Matthew Robbins
  • Maxime Jacquet
  • Na Young Kim
  • Negar Seif
  • Ningping Cao
  • Pablo Leon
  • Patrik Svancara
  • Paul Okrah
  • Paul Wong
  • Pietro Smaniotto
  • Radivoje Prizia
  • Rajeev Singh
  • Ralf Schuetzhold
  • Ralph Torres
  • ROB MYERS
  • Robert Mann
  • Rohit Bhattarai
  • Rohit Raj
  • Ruize Ma
  • Ruth Gregory
  • Sagnik Sinha Choudhuri
  • Sam Patrick
  • SAMREEN KHAN
  • Sean Gregory
  • shailash kumar verma
  • Shiqian Hu
  • Shreya Sachdeva
  • Siddhartha Bhattacharjee
  • Silke Weinfurtner
  • Silvia Schiattarella
  • Sreelekshmi Chitradevi Ajithkumar
  • Subhayan Sahu
  • Thibault Mergault
  • Thomas Billam
  • Tsung-Cheng (Peter) Lu
  • Victor Wei
  • Viktoriia Voloshyna
  • weifeng zhou
  • William Unruh
  • Xavier Rojas
  • Yasaman Yazdi
  • Yi Hong Teoh
  • Yiqiu Han
  • Zvonimir Bandic
Tania Framst
    • 8:30 AM 9:15 AM
      Registration & Light Breakfast 45m Main Entrance

      Main Entrance

    • 9:15 AM 10:00 AM
      Quantum Simulators of Fundamental Physics overview 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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

      Speaker: Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)
    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 10:30 AM 11:15 AM
      Simulating one-dimensional quantum chromodynamics on a quantum computer: Real-time evolutions of tetra- and pentaquarks 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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

      Speaker: Christine Muschik (University of Waterloo)
    • 11:15 AM 12:00 PM
      From the tabletop to the Big Bang: Analogue false vacuum decay from vacuum initial conditions 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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

      Speaker: Alex Jenkins (University College London (UCL))
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and Collaboration 2h PI/2-251 - Upper Bistro

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    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Five short talks - see description for talk titles 1h PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      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 PM 3:30 PM
      Coffee Break 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 3:30 PM 4:15 PM
      First observations of false vacuum decay in a BEC 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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

      Speaker: Ian Moss (Newcastle University)
    • 4:15 PM 5:00 PM
      Building Quantum Simulators for QuFTs 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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

      Speaker: Jorg Schmiedmayer (Technical University of Vienna)
    • 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
      KW Escape room & pizza night - Sign up here: https://forms.gle/RBTMPU3DExGu1SD26 2h

      Registration is full.

    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Light breakfast available 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 9:00 AM 9:45 AM
      Stability of quantised vortices in two-component condensates 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Sam Patrick (Kings College London)
    • 9:45 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 45m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 10:30 AM 11:15 AM
      Language models for simulating the dynamics of quantum systems 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Juan Carrasquilla (Vector Institute)
    • 11:15 AM 12:00 PM
      Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      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 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and Collaboration 2h PI/2-251 - Upper Bistro

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    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Fireslides 1h PI/1-100 - Theatre

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    • 3:00 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break and Pre-Panel Brainstorming 1h PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Panel Discussion: Open Questions in Early Universe 1h PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      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)
    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      LIght breakfast available 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 9:00 AM 9:45 AM
      Mechanical rotation as a source for waves amplification and quantum entanglement 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Maria Braidotti (University of Glasgow)
    • 9:45 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 45m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 10:30 AM 11:15 AM
      Probing the Vacuum with Continuous Unruh Detectors 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Cisco Gooding (University of Nottingham)
    • 11:15 AM 12:00 PM
      Typicality and quantum thermalisation of interacting spinless fermions 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Gregoire Ithier (Royal Holloway)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and Collaboration 2h PI/2-251 - Upper Bistro

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    • 2:00 PM 3:00 PM
      Five short talks - see description for talk titles 1h PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      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 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break and Pre-Panel Brainstorming 1h PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      Panel Discussion: Open questions in Black Holes 1h PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      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 PM 8:00 PM
      Banquet 2h PI/2-251 - Upper Bistro

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    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Light breakfast available 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 9:00 AM 9:45 AM
      Analogue quasinormal mode oscillations of optical solitons 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Friedrich Koenig (University of St Andrews)
    • 9:45 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 45m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 10:30 AM 11:15 AM
      How Quantum Field Simulators can address Quark Gluon Plasma and Cosmoloy inspired Questions 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Markus Oberthaler (Heidelberg University)
    • 11:15 AM 12:00 PM
      Measurement of Penrose superradiance in a photon superfluid using off-axis digital holography 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Radivoje Prizia (University of Nottingham)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and Collaboration 2h PI/2-251 - Upper Bistro

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    • 2:00 PM 2:45 PM
      Analogue gravity with superfluid optomechanics 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Xavier Rojas (University of London)
    • 2:45 PM 3:30 PM
      Modelling bubble nucleation in finite temperature Bose gases 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Thomas Billam (Newcastle University)
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee break 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
      QSimFP Outreach Activities 1h PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)
    • 8:30 AM 9:00 AM
      Light breakfast available 30m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 9:00 AM 9:45 AM
      Dynamically assisted tunneling 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Ralf Schuetzhold (Helmholtz-Zentrum)
    • 9:45 AM 10:30 AM
      Coffee Break 45m PI/1-124 - Lower Bistro

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    • 10:30 AM 11:15 AM
      Quantum black hole simulator 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Patrik Svancara (University of Nottingham)
    • 11:15 AM 12:00 PM
      Theory Modelling for the Analogue Unruh Effect 45m PI/1-100 - Theatre

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      Speaker: Cameron Bunney (University of Nottingham)
    • 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch and Collaboration 2h PI/2-251 - Upper Bistro

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