Physicists Use Google's Quantum Computer to Create Holographic Wormhole Between Black Holes (quantamagazine.org) 55
"In an experiment that ticks most of the mystery boxes in modern physics, a group of researchers announced Wednesday that they had simulated a pair of black holes in a quantum computer," reports the New York Times [alternate URL here. But in addition, the researchers also sent a message between their two black holes, the Times reports, "through a shortcut in space-time called a wormhole.
"Physicists described the achievement as another small step in the effort to understand the relation between gravity, which shapes the universe, and quantum mechanics, which governs the subatomic realm of particles....
Quanta magazine reports: The wormhole emerged like a hologram out of quantum bits of information, or "qubits," stored in tiny superconducting circuits. By manipulating the qubits, the physicists then sent information through the wormhole, they reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. The team, led by Maria Spiropulu of the California Institute of Technology, implemented the novel "wormhole teleportation protocol" using Google's quantum computer, a device called Sycamore housed at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, California. With this first-of-its-kind "quantum gravity experiment on a chip," as Spiropulu described it, she and her team beat a competing group of physicists who aim to do wormhole teleportation with IBM and Quantinuum's quantum computers.
When Spiropulu saw the key signature indicating that qubits were passing through the wormhole, she said, "I was shaken."
The experiment can be seen as evidence for the holographic principle, a sweeping hypothesis about how the two pillars of fundamental physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, fit together.... The holographic principle, ascendant since the 1990s, posits a mathematical equivalence or "duality" between the two frameworks. It says the bendy space-time continuum described by general relativity is really a quantum system of particles in disguise. Space-time and gravity emerge from quantum effects much as a 3D hologram projects out of a 2D pattern. Indeed, the new experiment confirms that quantum effects, of the type that we can control in a quantum computer, can give rise to a phenomenon that we expect to see in relativity — a wormhole....
To be clear, unlike an ordinary hologram, the wormhole isn't something we can see. While it can be considered "a filament of real space-time," according to co-author Daniel Jafferis of Harvard University, lead developer of the wormhole teleportation protocol, it's not part of the same reality that we and the Sycamore computer inhabit. The holographic principle says that the two realities — the one with the wormhole and the one with the qubits — are alternate versions of the same physics, but how to conceptualize this kind of duality remains mysterious. Opinions will differ about the fundamental implications of the result. Crucially, the holographic wormhole in the experiment consists of a different kind of space-time than the space-time of our own universe. It's debatable whether the experiment furthers the hypothesis that the space-time we inhabit is also holographic, patterned by quantum bits.
"I think it is true that gravity in our universe is emergent from some quantum [bits] in the same way that this little baby one-dimensional wormhole is emergent" from the Sycamore chip, Jafferis said. "Of course we don't know that for sure. We're trying to understand it."
Here's how principal investigator Spiropulu summarizes their experiment. "We found a quantum system that exhibits key properties of a gravitational wormhole yet is sufficiently small to implement on today's quantum hardware."
"Physicists described the achievement as another small step in the effort to understand the relation between gravity, which shapes the universe, and quantum mechanics, which governs the subatomic realm of particles....
Quanta magazine reports: The wormhole emerged like a hologram out of quantum bits of information, or "qubits," stored in tiny superconducting circuits. By manipulating the qubits, the physicists then sent information through the wormhole, they reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. The team, led by Maria Spiropulu of the California Institute of Technology, implemented the novel "wormhole teleportation protocol" using Google's quantum computer, a device called Sycamore housed at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, California. With this first-of-its-kind "quantum gravity experiment on a chip," as Spiropulu described it, she and her team beat a competing group of physicists who aim to do wormhole teleportation with IBM and Quantinuum's quantum computers.
When Spiropulu saw the key signature indicating that qubits were passing through the wormhole, she said, "I was shaken."
The experiment can be seen as evidence for the holographic principle, a sweeping hypothesis about how the two pillars of fundamental physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, fit together.... The holographic principle, ascendant since the 1990s, posits a mathematical equivalence or "duality" between the two frameworks. It says the bendy space-time continuum described by general relativity is really a quantum system of particles in disguise. Space-time and gravity emerge from quantum effects much as a 3D hologram projects out of a 2D pattern. Indeed, the new experiment confirms that quantum effects, of the type that we can control in a quantum computer, can give rise to a phenomenon that we expect to see in relativity — a wormhole....
To be clear, unlike an ordinary hologram, the wormhole isn't something we can see. While it can be considered "a filament of real space-time," according to co-author Daniel Jafferis of Harvard University, lead developer of the wormhole teleportation protocol, it's not part of the same reality that we and the Sycamore computer inhabit. The holographic principle says that the two realities — the one with the wormhole and the one with the qubits — are alternate versions of the same physics, but how to conceptualize this kind of duality remains mysterious. Opinions will differ about the fundamental implications of the result. Crucially, the holographic wormhole in the experiment consists of a different kind of space-time than the space-time of our own universe. It's debatable whether the experiment furthers the hypothesis that the space-time we inhabit is also holographic, patterned by quantum bits.
"I think it is true that gravity in our universe is emergent from some quantum [bits] in the same way that this little baby one-dimensional wormhole is emergent" from the Sycamore chip, Jafferis said. "Of course we don't know that for sure. We're trying to understand it."
Here's how principal investigator Spiropulu summarizes their experiment. "We found a quantum system that exhibits key properties of a gravitational wormhole yet is sufficiently small to implement on today's quantum hardware."
This again? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:This again? (Score:4, Funny)
It's not a duplicate, the wormhole sucked you back in time
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It's not a duplicate, the wormhole sucked you back in time.
Re: This again? (Score:2)
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slashdotja vu
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Next Iteration will be Biologists (Score:2)
This is the other end of the wormhole (Score:2)
and at only (Score:2)
one megawatt per bit!
Not the holographic principle (Score:5, Informative)
What it actually is, is still neat. They used quantum teleportation to transport a scrambled many body system. Which is very cool. That some of the mathematical predictions of a wormhole show up is very cool. That these effects can be computed in holography is neat. But the principles themselves admit it's not wormhole, it doesn't actually look like holographic gravity or bear the signature of such. And they needed to do all the normal quantum teleportation stuff, including a classical communication channel, to quantumly teleport information.
In fact the only thing the experiment proves is that a self consistent theory of mathematics describing many body teleportation has proven physically correct. But instead of celebrating this fact they take it a step too far and celebrate that an analog of a physical theory working must be evidence of the theory itself working, even if that doesn't necessarily follow. EG we've found "Majorana edge modes", a useful analog to the hypothesized "Majorana fermion", but people that work with such don't take it as direct evidence that the fermion itself actually exists.
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There are a few catches. First, the "idea" is a conjecture called the AdS/CFT duality. It's a conjecture, but lots of people like to assume it's a theorem. Second, neither of the space-times involved are actually the one we live in.
The third bit is that they didn't actually create the quantum system that is supposedly dual to a wormhole. They created a simplified quantum computer simulation of a model (called SYK) that's used a lot in condensed matter physics and has some connections to the CFT part of AdS/
New York Times science articles? Don't. (Score:2)
The only thing worse is a dupe of a NYT science article.
Editors, please read your own site sometimes.
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While this is s dupe, the NYT article was quite good and explained what it was and what it wasn't.
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If they "created" anything, then only more ... (Score:2)
https://www.math.columbia.edu/... [columbia.edu] and
https://mateusaraujo.info/2022... [mateusaraujo.info]
I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
We're all going to the hole together.
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
I dunno. But I do know that "Everything You Know is Wrong!"
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
wow, wouldn't want to have breakfast at your house!
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I dunno. But I do know that "Everything You Know is Wrong!"
Honey, they're in everybody's eggs!
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
A square, little fellow. Choked to death on a piece of cheese.
Bear Whiz Beer, It's in the water... that's why it's yellow!
Bear Whiz Beer is a liquid product of Hannibal, Mo.
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
It's just this little chromium-plated switch here... You people are sooo superstitious!
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It's just this little chromium-plated switch here... You people are sooo superstitious!
Eat it!
Eat it Raw!
Rah, rah, rah; that's the spirit we have here at Morse Science High!
Por-gy, Tire-biter; he's a spy and a girl de-light-er!
Por-gy, Fire-fighter; just a student like me.
If you're lookin' for a Captain of the Ringball team, you can bet, he won't be there!
You'll find him poppin' off at Pop's Sodium Shop; diggin' a Red, with Red Hair! (Shooby do-wah!)
Por-gy, Fire-fighter; just a Student like you (like me?!?)
Just a student like you (Stop singing and finish your homework!)
Just a student like, you
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A square, little fellow. Choked to death on a piece of cheese.
Bear Whiz Beer, It's in the water... that's why it's yellow!
Bear Whiz Beer is a liquid product of Hannibal, Mo.
All must learn to play the piano!
Enough of this deception and trickery! Gas Music From Jupiter, indeed!
I think some phenomena just landed on your plate! Well, just turn your head, sir, and I'll eat them.
Hey Cox! Where did everybody go?!?
Re: I smell Fresh air... and Breakfast! (Score:2)
Avoid eye contact.
If there are no eyes, avoid ALL contact!
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Avoid eye contact.
If there are no eyes, avoid ALL contact!
Always remember: Your brain may no longer be the boss!
BTW, I always thought Woody Harrelson's character in the movie "2012" was modeled after Dr. Happy Harry Cox. . .
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We're all going to the hole together.
And there goes the last float, the former President's float, down into the hole and up the golden staircase.
There he goes, waving and weeping. . .
oh goody (Score:2)
Jeebus (Score:3)
Re:Jeebus (Score:4, Insightful)
Interesting work, for sure, but the hype-factor and dumbed-downness in the reporting is more massive than the average black hole.
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Yes, and it's only "simulate one as yet unproven model of what a wormhole might be like".
... and simulated using far too few qubits to really be doing anything noteworthy other than getting their names in the newspaper.
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Scientists simulate duped article (Score:1)
No wait, it was just idiot Slashdot editors.
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The only ones trolling are the editors posting dupes. Wake up!
I simulated a wormhole ... (Score:2)
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Oh, I saw that movie. The first half is good/classic science-fiction but the second half is like a bad horror movie. Still an interesting movie, good FX and all, but you end up disappointed because of the whole "wormholes go through hell" angle.
Hmm (Score:2)
This sounds much cooler than it probably is.
TL;DR
Holographic (Score:2)
Please state the nature of the duplication emergency.
I fail to see how this accomplishes anything. (Score:2)
I know models are cheaper than a particle collider, but this is getting out of hand. You can't just pretend that conclusions reached through decades of conjec
Re: I fail to see how this accomplishes anything. (Score:2)
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Re: I fail to see how this accomplishes anything. (Score:2)
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Re: I fail to see how this accomplishes anything. (Score:2)
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Just a simulation, massively overhyped (Score:2)
REALLY ?! A new low for Slashdot Editors (Score:2)
Go and find a job you can do.
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They can work for creimer.
Create != simulate (Score:2)
Nope (Score:2)