01867nas a2200157 4500008004100000245010800041210006900149260001400218520132800232100002401560700002001584700001901604700002401623700002501647856003701672 2021 eng d00aCircuit Quantum Electrodynamics in Hyperbolic Space: From Photon Bound States to Frustrated Spin Models0 aCircuit Quantum Electrodynamics in Hyperbolic Space From Photon c5/13/20213 a
Circuit quantum electrodynamics is one of the most promising platforms for efficient quantum simulation and computation. In recent groundbreaking experiments, the immense flexibility of superconducting microwave resonators was utilized to realize hyperbolic lattices that emulate quantum physics in negatively curved space. Here we investigate experimentally feasible settings in which a few superconducting qubits are coupled to a bath of photons evolving on the hyperbolic lattice. We compare our numerical results for finite lattices with analytical results for continuous hyperbolic space on the Poincaré disk. We find good agreement between the two descriptions in the long-wavelength regime. We show that photon-qubit bound states have a curvature-limited size. We propose to use a qubit as a local probe of the hyperbolic bath, for example by measuring the relaxation dynamics of the qubit. We find that, although the boundary effects strongly impact the photonic density of states, the spectral density is well described by the continuum theory. We show that interactions between qubits are mediated by photons propagating along geodesics. We demonstrate that the photonic bath can give rise to geometrically-frustrated hyperbolic quantum spin models with finite-range or exponentially-decaying interaction.
1 aBienias, Przemyslaw1 aBoettcher, Igor1 aBelyansky, Ron1 aKollár, Alicia, J.1 aGorshkov, Alexey, V. uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06490