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
(2024)
Testing Higher Derivative Gravity through Tunnelling
in Particles
Gregory R
(2023)
Seeded vacuum decay with Gauss-Bonnet
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2023)
Stability of quantised vortices in two-component condensates
Patrick S
(2022)
Quantum vortex instability and black hole superradiance
in Physical Review Research
Patrick S
(2023)
Stability of quantized vortices in two-component condensates
in Physical Review Research
Patrick S
(2024)
Primer on the analog black hole bomb with capillary-gravity waves
in Physical Review D
Patrick S
(2022)
Origin and evolution of the multiply quantized vortex instability
in Physical Review Research
| Description | Research Grant (Standard) FEC |
| Amount | £85,611 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/Y004450/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Scratching the Surface of Quantum Liquids with Wave-Vortex Interactions |
| Amount | £387,468 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Z536660/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | Benasque Worksop on Analogue Gravity |
| 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 | Workshop on analog gravity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.benasque.org/2023ag/ |
| Description | CERN/HET invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture at CERN/HET - Gender in high energy physics. The conference was a mix of technical physics talks and diversity related talks. Overall, from discussions during breaks it is clear it was influencing people's attitudes and understanding of minorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Exhibition tour of Cosmic Titans |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I led a tour of the Cosmic Titans exhibition attended by members of the public. The audience consisted of those with a casual interest in science as well as those with a background in the arts. Attendees reported an increased understanding in quantum physics, black holes and the overlap between methodologies used in art and science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Guest lecture on analogue gravity 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 | Gave a guest lecture on analogue gravity to a group of masters students at Perimeter Institute. The students gave positive feedback about the content of the lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Invited Lecture: "Heraeus Symposium - Classical and Quantum Fluctuations across Systems and Scales", Bad Honnef |
| 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 | The purpose of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, as defined in its constitution, is to promote research and education in the field of natural sciences through direct and indirect activities. The foundation is both operational and sponsoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.we-heraeus-stiftung.de/veranstaltungen/classical-and-quantum-fluctuations-across-systems... |
| Description | Invited Plenary Talk at "50 Years of Horndeski", Perimeter Institute Canada |
| 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 | Interest from attendees, conversations and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited speaker at "Challenges beyond GR", Barcelona |
| 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 | Presented QSimFP work - sparked a lot of interest as this was new physics to this particular audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Nishinomiya-Yukawa Symposium, Kyoto |
| 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 | Plenary speaker at Symposium "Towards a Quantum Black Hole" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~gc2024/symposium/index.php |
| 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 | Presentation at Quantum Fluids and Solids 2023 (Manchester) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented a poster on vortex stabilisation to a conference of 150 academics, which led to stimulating discussions and the generation of new ideas |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Public Lecture: Prague Academy of Sciences: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public Lecture "Symmetry and Conservation: The Impact of Emmy Noether", attended by Czech public and local physicists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Seminar at University of St Andrews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 10 academics (students/postgrads/lecturers) with an optics background attended a seminar I gave on analogue gravity and research within QSimFP. Reported increased interest in the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Seminar on analogue gravity - FEMTO-ST Besançon, FRANCE. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on analogue gravity at FEMTO-ST Laboratory for researchers and technicians in non-linear optics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Seminar on analogue gravity - UTT Troyes FRANCE. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on analogue gravity for researcher and technician working on photonics and plasmonics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Seminar on analogue gravity 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 | Gave a seminar to the strong gravity group at Perimeter Institute discussing the quantum black hole experiments taking place in QSimFP. Received positive feedback from the international community, with members of the group expressing an interest in the experiments and providing input from the gravity side |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Speaker at 3rd Edition QFTCS Workshop, Lisbon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk on black hole bomb instabilities in analogue gravity experiments. Members of the audience reported interest which led to discussions with the wider community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk at "Black Holes: from the Universe to the Lab" Workshop (Nottingham 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk on modelling analogue black holes to the gravity groups from Nottingham and Tubingen universities. Received positive feedback following the talk from various members of both organisations, leading to new ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk at QSimFP Annual Meeting (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 | Gave a talk on vortex stability to a conference of 50 academics, who gathered to discuss the role of quantum simulators for probing fundamental physics questions. This led to new collaborations between organisations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Description | Werner Israel Memorial Symposium |
| 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 | Invited speaker at Israel Symposium, to honour the work of Werner Israel, "Walls, Bubbles, and Israel" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://indico.triumf.ca/event/332/ |