Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
King's College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Burgess C
(2024)
Quasinormal Modes of Optical Solitons
in Physical Review Letters
Gregory R
(2023)
Seeded vacuum decay with Gauss-Bonnet
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Gregory R
(2024)
Testing Higher Derivative Gravity Through Tunnelling
in Particles
Hamaide L
(2022)
Black hole information recovery from gravitational waves
Hamaide L
(2023)
Black hole information recovery from gravitational waves
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Patrick S
(2022)
Origin and evolution of the multiply quantized vortex instability
in Physical Review Research
Patrick S
(2022)
Quantum vortex instability and black hole superradiance
in Physical Review Research
Patrick S
(2023)
Stability of quantised vortices in two-component condensates
Patrick S
(2023)
Stability of quantized vortices in two-component condensates
in Physical Review Research
Torres T
(2022)
Wave focusing by submerged islands and gravitational analogues
in Physical Review Research
| Description | Cambridge Harding Symposium - Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | HARDING SYMPOSIUM A day of talks and panel discussion on the use and benefits to society of Quantum Technologies. Sponsored by David Harding (founder and CEO of Winton group) at Henley on Thames. Ruth Gregory participated as a panel member. Direct impacts unknown, but the opportunity to communicate our science and potential impact to business is important. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Guest Lecture at Perimeter Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest lecture of gravitational physics at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada. Lots of questions from students about analogue models |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Introductory talk at QSimFP annual workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Introductory talk to the annual QSimFP workshop 2022. Overview of analogue gravity suitable suitable for the non-experts in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oldenburg Colloquium: Primordial Black Holes and Higgs Vacuum Decay |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An online talk in a series intended for graduate students and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Peyresq Workshop - Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An in depth presentation on the activities of the Consortium to a week dedicated to collaboration and discussion across theoretical physics and grarvity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Research talk at QSimFP annual workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research talk at annual QSimFP workshop summarising work on vortex decay. Sparked discussion and debate afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Rubakov Symposium: Black Holes and Vacuum Decay Catalysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A symposium to honour Prof Valery Rubakov, recipient of the 2020 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://indico.desy.de/event/31627/ |
| Description | SUSY2022 Plenary Talk: Higgs vacuum decay and primordial black holes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary talk at the 29th CONFERENCE ON SUPERSYMMETRY AND THE UNIFICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS in Ioannina, Greece: "Higgs vacuum decay and primordial black holes" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/1083758/ |
| Description | Seminar at Kings College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to LPPC group at Kings College London. Discussed the use of analogue systems for exploring gravity. Many PhD students got interested |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seminar at Newcastle University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a seminar on fluid mechanical analogues of black holes at Newcastle University. Talk sparked many questions and ideas for future colloaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at Testing Gravity, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research talk at Testing Gravity 2022, which brings together world leading researchers in the field of gravity. Talk helped increase the presence of analogue systems in traditional gravity circles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Talk at The Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk at international conference which sparked questions and discussion afterwards. Dissemination of work to international community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Talk for Quantum Fluids UK Webinar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk at UK wide Webinar series for quantum fluids. Questions, discussions and potential for future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk to "All things EFT" :: Catalysing Vacuum Decay with Black Holes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A research seminar to an international series. Some very interesting discussion at the end pertaining to the experiments we are doing as part of the consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/MST541vqDgE |
| Description | Testing Gravity 2023 Invited Talk: Testing higher derivative gravity through tunnelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker at 4th Testing Gravity Conference at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada. The conference brings together leading practitioners in gravity: theory, observation and experiment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sfu.ca/physics/cosmology/TestingGravity2023/ |
| Description | Tutorial session at QTFP Winter School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a tutorial session at the QTFP workshop in Cambridge. Students reported interest in analogue gravity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |