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We develop a hybrid qubit-qumode framework for simulating quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions. In this approach, fermionic matter fields are represented by qubits, while U(1) gauge fields are encoded in continuous-variable bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Victor Ale , Tommaso Rainaldi , Enrique Rico , Felix Ringer , George Siopsis

We present a general strategy to simulate a D+1-dimensional quantum system using a D-dimensional one. We analyze in detail a feasible implementation of our scheme using optical lattice technology. The simplest non-trivial realization of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 O. Boada , A. Celi , M. Lewenstein , J. I. Latorre

A satisfactory theory of quantum gravity may necessitate a drastic modification of our perception of space-time, by giving it a foamy structure at distances comparable to the Planck length. It is argued in this essay that the experimental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-11 John. Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

Quantum simulation aims to simulate a quantum system using a controble laboratory system that underline the same mathematical model. Cavity QED lattice system is that prescribe system to simulate the relativistic quantum effect. We quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 Sujit Sarkar

Any theory of quantum gravity must ultimately be connected to observations. This demand is difficult to be met due to the high energies at which we expect the quantum nature of gravity to become manifest. Here we study, how viable quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Astrid Eichhorn

An essential step towards the identification of a fermion mass generation mechanism at Planck scale is to analyse massive fermions in a given quantum gravity framework. In this letter the two mass terms entering the Hamiltonian constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Merced Montesinos-Velasquez , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl , Tonatiuh Matos

In this thesis, we have used a linearized quantum gravity setting to investigate the effects of gravitons on matter systems. Based on the graviton-matter interaction, we have then proposed detector models that may be able to pick up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Soham Sen

We study the quantum fermions+gravity system, that is, the gravitational counterpart of QED. We start from the standard Einstein-Weyl theory, reformulated in terms of Ashtekar variables; and we construct its non- perturbative quantum theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 H A Marales-Tecotl , C Rovelli

We study dynamical mass generation in QED in (2+1) dimensions using Hamiltonian lattice methods. We use staggered fermions, and perform simulations with explicit dynamical fermions in the chiral limit. We demonstrate that a recently…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Pieter Maris , Dean Lee

We reconsider monolayer graphene in the presence of elastic deformations. It is described by the tight - binding model with varying hopping parameters. We demonstrate, that the fermionic quasiparticles propagate in the emergent 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-13 M. A. Zubkov , G. E. Volovik

Effective quantum field theoretical continuum models for graphene are investigated. The models include a complex scalar field and a vector gauge field. Different gauge theories are considered and their gap patterns for the scalar, vector,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-27 O. Oliveira , C. E. Cordeiro , A. Delfino , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

It is well-known that the tight-binding Hamiltonian of graphene describes the low-energy excitations that appear to be massless chiral Dirac fermions. Thus, in the continuum limit one can analyze the crystal properties using the formalism…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-03 P. Kosinski , P. Maslanka , J. Slawinska , I. Zasada

The fermion propagator is derived in detail from the model of fermion coupled to loop quantum gravity. As an ingredient of the propagator, the vacuum state is defined as the ground state of some effective fermion Hamiltonian under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Cong Zhang , Hongguang Liu , Muxin Han

Strongly interacting fermions define the properties of complex matter at all densities, from atomic nuclei to modern solid state materials and neutron stars. Ultracold atomic Fermi gases have emerged as a pristine platform for the study of…

The study of general two dimensional models of gravity allows to tackle basic questions of quantum gravity, bypassing important technical complications which make the treatment in higher dimensions difficult. As the physically important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 D. Grumiller , W. Kummer , D. V. Vassilevich

The search for a theory of quantum gravity is the most fundamental problem in all of theoretical physics, but there are as yet no experimental results at all to guide this endeavor. What seems to be needed is a pragmatic way to test if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-23 Johan Hansson , Stephane Francois

Presented is a quantum lattice gas algorithm to efficiently model a system of Dirac particles interacting through an intermediary gauge field. The algorithm uses a fixed qubit array to represent both the spacetime and the particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Jeffrey Yepez

Supersymmetric models are grounded in the intriguing concept of a hypothetical symmetry that relates bosonic and fermionic particles. This symmetry has profound implications, offering valuable extensions to the Standard Model of particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-11-25 Emanuele Mendicelli , David Schaich

Path integral quantization of generic two-dimensional dilaton gravity non-minimally coupled to a Dirac fermion is performed. After integrating out geometry exactly, perturbation theory is employed in the matter sector to derive the lowest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Grumiller , Rene Meyer

Motivated by quantum gravity on spacetimes with multi-scale geometry, we analyze quantum field theories with a self-adjoint fractional power $(\Box^2)^{\gamma/2}$ of the d'Alem\-bert\-ian in the kinetic term, for any real $\gamma>0$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Gianluca Calcagni , Fabio Briscese