Mimicking black hole event horizons in atomic and solid-state systems

Ken K. W., Kun Yang

George Chapline

Marcel Franz, Moshe Rozali A

Holographic quantum matter exhibits an intriguing connection between quantum black holes and more conventional (albeit strongly interacting) quantum many-body systems. This connection is manifested in the study of their thermodynamics,statistical mechanics and many-body quantum chaos. After explaining some of those connections and their significance, we focus on the most promising example to date of holographic quantum matter, the family of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models. Those are simple quantum mechanical models that are thought to realize, holographically, quantum black holes. We review and assess various proposals for experimental realizations of the SYK models. Such experimental realization offers the exciting prospect of accessing black hole physics, and thus addressing many mysterious questions in quantum gravity, in tabletop experiments.

X. L. Huang, Si-Yu Liu

Abstract We study genuine N-partite entanglement of massless Dirac fields new a black hole event horizon (BEH) and a cosmological event horizon (CEH) in the Schwarzschild–de Sitter (SdS) spacetime, respectively. We obtain the general analytical expression of genuine N-partite entanglement shared by N observers, each located near the BEH and CEH, respectively. It is shown that genuine N-partite entanglement situated near the BEH can decrease to zero with the decrease of the mass of the black hole, suggesting that the Hawking effect of the black hole destroys quantum entanglement. Because the Hawking effect of the black hole located near the CEH is very weak, its impact on quantum entanglement is negligible. In addition, choosing appropriate initial parameters is beneficial to protecting quantum entanglement in multi-event horizon spacetime.

L. G. Egito da Silva, Antônio de Pádua Santos, Erms Pereira

Katherine Wright