{"id":241474,"date":"2026-07-24T04:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/shaking-atoms-to-bring-black-hole-quantum-chaos-into-the-lab"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:23:28","slug":"shaking-atoms-to-bring-black-hole-quantum-chaos-into-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/shaking-atoms-to-bring-black-hole-quantum-chaos-into-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Shaking atoms to bring black-hole quantum chaos into the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shaking-atoms-to-bring-black-hole-quantum-chaos-into-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have discovered a surprisingly simple way to reproduce one of the most fascinating models in modern physics\u2014linked to black holes, quantum chaos and exotic electronic materials\u2014using ultracold atoms trapped in light.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to build a highly complex system from scratch, the researchers show that gently \u201cshaking\u201d a standard optical lattice can transform it into an accurate simulator of the Sachdev\u2013Ye\u2013Kitaev (SYK) model, a theoretical model known for its extreme and unusual quantum behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/r8zs-qvj3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have discovered a surprisingly simple way to reproduce one of the most fascinating models in modern physics\u2014linked to black holes, quantum chaos and exotic electronic materials\u2014using ultracold atoms trapped in light. Instead of trying to build a highly complex system from scratch, the researchers show that gently \u201cshaking\u201d a standard optical lattice can transform [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241474","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}