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Quantum simulation of cosmological models

Date

Friday September 27, 2024
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

STI A
Event Category
Colloquia
Departmental

Cheng Chin
James Franck institute, Enrico Fermi institute,
Department of Physics, University of Chicago

 

Abstract

A central question in cosmology is to understand the inflation process. While primordial fluctuations are considered quantum in origin, the observed cosmic microwave background anisotropy is so far well described by classical Gaussian field. What would be the observables of quantum correlations? Can quantum optics and quantum simulation offer hints on the emergence of non-Gaussianity and unitarity of the inflation dynamics?

 

Timbits, coffee, tea will be served in STI A before the colloquium.