Fermion production at the boundary of an expanding universe: a cold-atom gravitational analogue
Autor: | Fulgado-Claudio, Carlos, Velázquez, Jose M. Sánchez, Bermudez, Alejandro |
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Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Zdroj: | Quantum 7, 1042 (2023) |
Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
DOI: | 10.22331/q-2023-06-21-1042 |
Popis: | We study the phenomenon of cosmological particle production of Dirac fermions in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker spacetime, focusing on a (1+1)-dimensional case in which the evolution of the scale factor is set by the equations of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. As a first step towards a quantum simulation of this phenomenon, we consider two possible lattice regularizations, which allow us to explore the interplay of particle production and topological phenomena in spacetimes with a boundary. In particular, for a Wilson-type discretization of the Dirac field, the asymptotic Minkowski vacua connected by the intermediate expansion corresponds to symmetry-protected topological groundstates, and have a boundary manifestation in the form of zero-modes exponentially localized to the spatial boundaries. We show that particle production can also populate these zero modes, which contrasts with the situation with a na\"ive-fermion discretization, in which conformal zero-mass fields exhibit no particle production. We present a scheme for the quantum simulation of this gravitational analogue by means of ultra-cold atoms in Raman optical lattices, which requires real-time control of the Raman-beam detuning according to the scale factor of the simulated spacetime, as well as band-mapping measurements. Comment: 31 pages, 11 figures |
Databáze: | arXiv |
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