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Quantum Spacetime on a Quantum Simulator

Authors :
Li, Keren
Li, Youning
Han, Muxin
Lu, Sirui
Zhou, Jie
Ruan, Dong
Long, Guilu
Wan, Yidun
Lu, Dawei
Zeng, Bei
Laflamme, Raymond
Source :
Communications Physics, volume 2, Article number: 122 (2019)
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We experimentally simulate the spin networks -- a fundamental description of quantum spacetime at the Planck level. We achieve this by simulating quantum tetrahedra and their interactions. The tensor product of these quantum tetrahedra comprises spin networks. In this initial attempt to study quantum spacetime by quantum information processing, on a four-qubit nuclear magnetic resonance quantum simulator, we simulate the basic module -- comprising five quantum tetrahedra -- of the interactions of quantum spacetime. By measuring the geometric properties on the corresponding quantum tetrahedra and simulate their interactions, our experiment serves as the basic module that represents the Feynman diagram vertex in the spin-network formulation of quantum spacetime.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Communications Physics, volume 2, Article number: 122 (2019)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1712.08711
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-019-0218-5