Experimental Observation of Curved Light-Cones in a Quantum Field Simulator

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Experimental Observation of Curved Light-Cones in a Quantum Field Simulator
المؤلفون: Tajik, Mohammadamin, Gluza, Marek, Sebe, Nicolas, Schüttelkopf, Philipp, Cataldini, Federica, Sabino, João, Møller, Frederik, Ji, Si-Cong, Erne, Sebastian, Guarnieri, Giacomo, Sotiriadis, Spyros, Eisert, Jens, Schmiedmayer, Jörg
المصدر: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2301287120 (2023)
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Quantum Physics
الوصف: We investigate signal propagation in a quantum field simulator of the Klein-Gordon model realized by two strongly coupled parallel one-dimensional quasi-condensates. By measuring local phononic fields after a quench, we observe the propagation of correlations along sharp light-cone fronts. If the local atomic density is inhomogeneous, these propagation fronts are curved. For sharp edges, the propagation fronts are reflected at the system's boundaries. By extracting the space-dependent variation of the front velocity from the data, we find agreement with theoretical predictions based on curved geodesics of an inhomogeneous metric. This work extends the range of quantum simulations of non-equilibrium field dynamics in general spacetime metrics.
Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301287120
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09132
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2209.09132
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv