Strange warping geometry helps to push scientific boundaries

Nanowerk  July 12, 2019
Atomic interactions in everyday solids and liquids are so complex that some of these materials’ properties continue to elude physicists’ understanding, even beyond the capability of mathematics. A team of researchers in the US (Princeton University, University of Maryland) turned to geometry instead. They built an electronic array on a microchip that simulates particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane. They used superconducting circuits to create a lattice that functions as a hyperbolic space. When the researchers introduce photons into the lattice, they can answer a wide range of difficult questions by observing the photons’ interactions in simulated hyperbolic space. The research represents a step towards on-chip quantum simulation of materials science and interacting particles in curved space…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Princeton researchers have built an electronic array on a microchip that simulates particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane. (Image courtesy of the researchers)

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