Jul 17 – 22, 2022
Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
America/Toronto timezone

Programmable Interactions and Emergent Geometry in a 1D Array of Atomic Ensembles

Jul 20, 2022, 5:00 PM
1h 30m
Hart House (Hart House)

Hart House

Hart House

7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Poster presentation Quantum information: gates, sensing, communication, and thermodynamics Poster session

Description

Control over the structure of interactions is essential for developing flexible quantum protocols. We couple an array of atomic ensembles to a driven optical cavity, creating an XY model. Using a magnetic field gradient and modulating the cavity field enables us to prune the naturally all-to-all connectivity of cavity-mediated interactions. We confirm these coupling graphs by direct measurements of two-point correlation functions. From the correlation measurements, we infer the structure and Euclidean embedding of the equivalent Hamiltonian with only local interactions. Example geometries include a Moebius ladder and a cylinder with sign-changing interactions.

This control of interactions can be leveraged to study a wide range of physical systems, including quantum gravity and quantum computation. We simulate spin systems relating quantum mechanics and gravity, inspired by a discretized formulation of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that the states generated by the cavity dynamics map to low-energy states of the programmed XY model. Finding the ground state of the XY Hamiltonian is an NP-hard problem, and these highly-programmable interactions open avenues towards spin-glass physics and physically-encoded computation.

Presenter name Avikar Periwal
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Primary authors

Avikar Periwal (Stanford Universty) Eric S. Cooper (Stanford University) Philipp Kunkel Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford University)

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