01783nas a2200169 4500008004100000245010500041210006900146260001400215490000800229520122700237100002001464700002401484700001901508700002401527700002501551856003701576 2020 eng d00aQuantum Simulation of Hyperbolic Space with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: From Graphs to Geometry0 aQuantum Simulation of Hyperbolic Space with Circuit Quantum Elec c9/11/20200 v1023 a
We show how quantum many-body systems on hyperbolic lattices with nearest-neighbor hopping and local interactions can be mapped onto quantum field theories in continuous negatively curved space. The underlying lattices have recently been realized experimentally with superconducting resonators and therefore allow for a table-top quantum simulation of quantum physics in curved background. Our mapping provides a computational tool to determine observables of the discrete system even for large lattices, where exact diagonalization fails. As an application and proof of principle we quantitatively reproduce the ground state energy, spectral gap, and correlation functions of the noninteracting lattice system by means of analytic formulas on the Poincaré disk, and show how conformal symmetry emerges for large lattices. This sets the stage for studying interactions and disorder on hyperbolic graphs in the future. Our analysis also reveals in which sense discrete hyperbolic lattices emulate the continuous geometry of negatively curved space and thus can be used to resolve fundamental open problems at the interface of interacting many-body systems, quantum field theory in curved space, and quantum gravity.
1 aBoettcher, Igor1 aBienias, Przemyslaw1 aBelyansky, Ron1 aKollár, Alicia, J.1 aGorshkov, Alexey, V. uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12318