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  • Author Correction: Programmable interactions and emergent geometry in an array of atom clouds. Nature Periwal, A., Cooper, E. S., Kunkel, P., Wienand, J. F., Davis, E. J., Schleier-Smith, M. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-04610-7

    View details for PubMedID 35277693

  • Measure in circles NATURE PHYSICS Kunkel, P., Schleier-Smith, M. 2022; 18 (2): 124-125
  • Detecting Entanglement Structure in Continuous Many-Body Quantum Systems PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Kunkel, P., Pruefer, M., Lannig, S., Strohmaier, R., Gaerttner, M., Strobel, H., Oberthaler, M. K. 2022; 128 (2): 020402

    Abstract

    A prerequisite for the comprehensive understanding of many-body quantum systems is a characterization in terms of their entanglement structure. The experimental detection of entanglement in spatially extended many-body systems describable by quantum fields still presents a major challenge. We develop a general scheme for certifying entanglement and demonstrate it by revealing entanglement between distinct subsystems of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. Our scheme builds on the spatially resolved simultaneous detection of the quantum field in two conjugate observables which allows the experimental confirmation of quantum correlations between local as well as nonlocal partitions of the system. The detection of squeezing in Bogoliubov modes in a multimode setting illustrates its potential to boost the capabilities of quantum simulations to study entanglement in spatially extended many-body systems.

    View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.020402

    View details for Web of Science ID 000743549900005

    View details for PubMedID 35089742

  • Programmable interactions and emergent geometry in an arrayof atom clouds. Nature Periwal, A., Cooper, E. S., Kunkel, P., Wienand, J. F., Davis, E. J., Schleier-Smith, M. 1800; 600 (7890): 630-635

    Abstract

    Interactions govern the flow of information and the formation of correlations between constituents of many-body quantum systems, dictating phases of matter found in nature and forms of entanglement generated in the laboratory. Typical interactions decay with distance and thus produce a network of connectivity governed by geometry-such as the crystalline structure of a material or the trapping sites of atoms in a quantum simulator1,2. However, many envisioned applications in quantum simulation and computation require more complex coupling graphs including non-local interactions, which feature in models of information scrambling in black holes3-6 and mappings of hard optimization problems onto frustrated classical magnets7-11. Here we describe the realization of programmable non-local interactions in an array of atomic ensembles within an optical cavity, in which photons carry information between atomic spins12-19. By programming the distance dependence of the interactions, we access effective geometries for which the dimensionality, topology and metric are entirely distinct from the physical geometry of the array. As examples, we engineer an antiferromagnetic triangular ladder, a Mobius strip with sign-changing interactions and a treelike geometry inspired by concepts of quantum gravity5,20-22. The tree graph constitutes a toy model of holographic duality21,22, in which the quantum system lies on the boundary of a higher-dimensional geometry that emerges from measured correlations23. Our work provides broader prospects for simulating frustrated magnets and topological phases24, investigating quantum optimization paradigms10,11,25,26 and engineering entangled resource states for sensing and computation27,28.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-021-04156-0

    View details for PubMedID 34937894