Quantum simulation of gravitational problems on condensed matter analog models

19 Jun 2023, 09:00 → 23 Jun 2023, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Gabriele Ferrari (University of Trento, Italy), Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center, Trento), Jacqueline Bloch (C2N - CNRS, Palaiseau, France), Massimiliano Rinaldi (UNITN), Roberto Balbinot (University of Bologna, Italy), Scott Robertson (Institut Pprime, Poitiers, France)

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This interdisciplinary workshop gathers specialists from theoretical and experimental condensed matter physics, quantum optics, quantum information, and from theoretical cosmology, gravitation and astrophysics. It is the 4th edition of a series of key events that have fostered the transition of analog models from being a scientific curiosity towards being a useful quantum simulation tool to experimentally explore new physics. Our specific goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary studies of condensed matter analog models of gravity as a concrete experimental tool to attack outstanding problems that arise in the context of gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics. The present challenge is to keep extending the range of configurations that can be simulated, and to identify the most important questions to be addressed. As a key novelty of our event, ample space will be devoted to the use of analog models to attack those quantum information issues that arise from black hole theory.

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A special event in memory of Renaud Parentani (1962-2020)
will take place on Wed.21st.

In collaboration with SIGRAV, we are foreseeing a "Parentani medal" prize to be offered to the best contribution by a young participant.

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The workshop is organized with the generous contribution of:

 

                

PosterParentaniDay2023.pdf

PosterQuantumSimulation2023.pdf

Monday 19 June

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 09:40 Opening

09:40 → 10:00 Welcome by the ECT* Director

Speaker: Gert Aarts (Swansea University and ECT*)

10:00 → 10:40 Quantum Detection of Unruh Radiation in BEC

Speaker: William George Unruh (ubc and Texa A&M)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 11:50 Quantum Fluctuations in Gravity: Gravitational Cats and Graviton Noise

Speaker: Bei-Lok Hu (University of Maryland)

11:50 → 12:20 Spontaneous Hawking radiation in a BEC and analogue cosmological particle creation in a fluid of light

Speaker: Jeff Steinhauer (Technion)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Progress update on experiments with fluids of light in Paris

Speaker: Maxime Jacquet (Sorbonne University)

15:00 → 15:30 Self-consistent analogue gravity with vortices

Speaker: Dmitry Solnyshkov (University Clermont Auvergne)

15:30 → 16:00 Waves amplification and quantum entanglement from rotation

Speaker: Maria Chiara Braidotti (university of Glasgow)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:00 Quasinormal Mode Oscillations of Optical Solitons

Speaker: Friedrich Koenig (University of St Andrews)

17:00 → 17:30 The double analytic signal in pulse propagation equations

Speaker: Dr David Bermudez (Department of Physics, Cinvestav)

17:30 → 19:00 Apéro

Tuesday 20 June

09:00 → 09:30 TBA

Speaker: Silke Weinfurtner (University of Nottingham)

09:30 → 10:00 Observation of finite temperature false vacuum decay in BEC - theo

Speaker: Ian Moss (Newcastle University)

10:00 → 10:30 Observation of finite temperature false vacuum decay in BEC - exp

Speaker: Gabriele Ferrari (University of trento, Italy)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Measures of entanglement in BEC analogues of black holes

Speaker: Nicolas Pavloff (universite Paris Saclay)

11:30 → 12:00 Analogue models of pre-heating and the back-reaction effect

Speaker: salvatore Butera (University of Glasgow)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Simulating the early universe using a BEC

Speaker: Chris Westbrook (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique)

15:00 → 15:30 Cosmological horizons radiate

Speaker: Ulf Leonhardt

15:30 → 16:00 Black hole superradiance: a portal to ultralight dark matter

Speaker: Paolo Pani (Sapienza University of Rome)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:00 Quantum field simulator for dynamics in curved spacetime

Speaker: Markus Oberthaler

17:00 → 17:30 The dynamical Casimir effect in Bose Einstein condensates: the breathing ring

Speaker: Alberto Parola (Universita' dell'Insubria, Como, Italy)

21:00 → 23:00 General public event on "Modelli Analoghi di Gravità" -- in collaboration with AISF (Associazione Italiana Studenti di Fisica) -- in italian

Wednesday 21 June

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome to the special day in memory of Renaud Parentani

Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center, Trento)

09:30 → 10:00 Quantum Equilibrium Propagation and some memories of Renaud Parentani

Speaker: Serge Massar (Université libre de Bruxelles)

10:00 → 10:40 Renaud's Horizons

Speaker: Ted Jacobson (Univ of Maryland-College Park)

10:40 → 11:20 Coffee

11:20 → 12:00 CES state and time crystals

Speakers: Fernando Sols (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Nonlocal Field Theory in Ultracold Gases: The Case of Dipolar Hawking Radiation

Speaker: Uwe R. Fischer (Seoul National University)

14:40 → 15:30 Various contriutions -- Finazzi, Florent Michel, ...

Speaker: Various

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:30 Acoustic Black Hole Lasers

Speaker: Antonin Coutant - online

16:30 → 17:00 Analogue gravity as a toy model of emergent spacetime

Speaker: Stefano Liberati (SISSA)

17:00 → 17:30 Closing

Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center, Trento)

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Thursday 22 June

09:00 → 09:30 Probing transcritical horizons in 1D open channel water flows

Speaker: Scott Robertson (Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay)

09:30 → 10:00 Looking for the black hole leser effect in interfacial hydrodynamics

Speaker: Alexis BOSSARD (Institut Pprime)

10:00 → 10:30 Bose-Einstein Condensates for the simulation and detection of gravitational effects

Speaker: Ivette Fuentes (University of Southampton and Keble College, Oxford)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Optomechanical Analogues for Gravitationally Induced Decoherence and Entanglement

Speaker: Miles Blencowe (Dartmouth College)

11:30 → 12:00 Kinetic theory approach to acoustic horizons

Speaker: Massimo Mannarelli (INFN - LNGS)

12:00 → 12:15 Shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in gravity analogue models

Speaker: Silvia Trabucco

12:15 → 12:30 Analogue tachyons in superconducting circuits

Speaker: Haruna Katayama (Hiroshima University)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:00 Information Recovery from Black Holes - online

Speaker: Prem Kumar (Swansea University)

15:00 → 15:15 Information Recovery from Black Holes

Speaker: Andrea Legramandi (Trento university)

15:15 → 15:45 Quantum correlations across the horizon in acoustic and gravitational black holes

Speaker: Alessandro Fabbri

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee

16:15 → 16:30 A cold-atom analogue of gravitational fermion production. Topological phases at the boundary of an expanding universe

Speaker: Carlos Fulgado-Claudio (Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM-CSIC))

16:30 → 16:45 Phonon-based quantum detection schemes for dark matter exploration

Speaker: Hector Antonio Fernandez Melendez (University of Southampton)

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Friday 23 June

09:00 → 09:15 Quantum catastrophes and Near Horizon Physics in a BEC

Speaker: Liam Farrell (McMaster University)

09:15 → 09:30 Analog Hawking radiation of massive modes in a coherently coupled Bose mixture

Speaker: Lennart Fernandes (University of Antwerp)

09:30 → 09:45 Superradiant phononic emission from the analog spin ergoregion of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Speaker: Anna Berti (University of Trento, Italy)

09:45 → 10:00 Evolution of entanglement in analogue preheating experiment

Speaker: Amaury Micheli (IJCLab, France / IAP, France)

10:00 → 10:15 Black hole mirages in Weyl semimetals

Speaker: Andreas Haller

10:15 → 10:30 Gravity and the superposition principle

Speaker: Hristu Culetu

10:30 → 11:00 Quantum simulation and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev model

Speaker: Philipp Uhrich (Pitaevskii BEC Center, INO-CNR and Università di Trento)

11:00 → 11:15 Analogue QFT simulators beyond the linear regime

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Erne

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee

12:00 → 12:30 Prize Ceremony

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Round table and Wrap Up