Quantum simulation of discrete curved spacetime by the Bose-Hubbard model: from analog acoustic black hole to quantum phase transition

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.11.010zbMATH Open1382.81214arXiv1612.09094OpenAlexW3104140055MaRDI QIDQ1704263FDOQ1704263

Authors: F. Bemani, Rasoul Roknizadeh, Mohammad Hossein Naderi 

Publication date: 9 March 2018

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a theoretical scheme to simulate quantum field theory in a discrete curved spacetime based on the Bose-Hubbard model describing a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped inside an optical lattice. Using the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian, we first introduce a hydrodynamic presentation of the system evolution in discrete space. We then show that the phase (density) fluctuations of the trapped bosons inside an optical lattice in the superfluid (Mott insulator) state obey the Klein-Gordon equation for a massless scalar field propagating in a discrete curved spacetime. We derive the effective metrics associated with the superfluid and Mott-insulator phases and, in particular, we find that in the superfluid phase the metric exhibits a singularity which can be considered as a the manifestation of an analog acoustic black hole. The proposed approach is found to provide a suitable platform for quantum simulation of various spacetime metrics through adjusting the system parameters.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09094

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zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensationquantum simulationBose-Hubbard modelquantum fields in curved spacetimequantum fields on lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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