{"id":164454,"date":"2023-05-24T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/bridging-quantum-theory-and-relativity-curved-spacetime-in-a-quantum-simulator"},"modified":"2023-05-24T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:22:27","slug":"bridging-quantum-theory-and-relativity-curved-spacetime-in-a-quantum-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/bridging-quantum-theory-and-relativity-curved-spacetime-in-a-quantum-simulator","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Quantum Theory and Relativity: Curved Spacetime in a Quantum Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bridging-quantum-theory-and-relativity-curved-spacetime-in-a-quantum-simulator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New techniques can answer questions that were previously inaccessible experimentally \u2014 including questions about the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientists at TU Wien and other institutions have developed a \u201cquantum simulator\u201d using ultracold atomic clouds to model quantum particles in curved spacetime, marking a major step toward reconciling quantum theory and the theory of relativity. The model system offers a tool to study gravitational lensing effects in a quantum field, which may lead to new insights in the elusive field of quantum gravity and other areas of physics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The theory of relativity works well when you want to explain cosmic-scale phenomena \u2014 such as the gravitational waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New techniques can answer questions that were previously inaccessible experimentally \u2014 including questions about the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity. Scientists at TU Wien and other institutions have developed a \u201cquantum simulator\u201d using ultracold atomic clouds to model quantum particles in curved spacetime, marking a major step toward reconciling quantum theory and the theory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}