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One-dimensional sections of exotic spacetimes with superconducting circuits

Quantum Physics 2018-05-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We introduce analog quantum simulations of 1+1 dimensional sections of exotic 3+1 dimensional spacetimes, such as Alcubierre warp-drive spacetime, G\"{o}del rotating universe and Kerr highly-rotating black hole metric. Suitable magnetic flux profiles along a SQUID array embedded in a superconducting transmission line allow to generate an effective spatiotemporal dependence in the speed of light, which is able to mimic the corresponding light propagation in a dimensionally-reduced exotic spacetime. In each case, we discuss the technical constraints and find the optimal region of parameters for the experimental implementation.

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@article{arxiv.1707.07439,
  title  = {One-dimensional sections of exotic spacetimes with superconducting circuits},
  author = {Carlos Sabín},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07439},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor changes, published version