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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32042-4
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [185806]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [ERC-StG-Neupert-757867-PARATOP]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [258499086-SFB 1170]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) through the Wurzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter-ct.qmat Project [39085490-EXC 2147]
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- University of Alberta
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2021-02534, DGECR-2021-00043]
The authors demonstrate how to emulate spaces with negative curvature using an electric circuit network and verify the hyperbolic nature of the model. They show that the spectral ordering of Laplacian eigenstates in negatively curved spaces is universally different from that in flat spaces. The presented techniques provide a versatile platform to investigate classical and quantum dynamics in negatively curved spaces.
Spaces with negative curvature are difficult to realise and investigate experimentally, but they can be emulated with synthetic matter. Here, the authors show how to do this using an electric circuit network, and present a method to characterize and verify the hyperbolic nature of the implemented model. The Laplace operator encodes the behavior of physical systems at vastly different scales, describing heat flow, fluids, as well as electric, gravitational, and quantum fields. A key input for the Laplace equation is the curvature of space. Here we discuss and experimentally demonstrate that the spectral ordering of Laplacian eigenstates for hyperbolic (negatively curved) and flat two-dimensional spaces has a universally different structure. We use a lattice regularization of hyperbolic space in an electric-circuit network to measure the eigenstates of a 'hyperbolic drum', and in a time-resolved experiment we verify signal propagation along the curved geodesics. Our experiments showcase both a versatile platform to emulate hyperbolic lattices in tabletop experiments, and a set of methods to verify the effective hyperbolic metric in this and other platforms. The presented techniques can be utilized to explore novel aspects of both classical and quantum dynamics in negatively curved spaces, and to realise the emerging models of topological hyperbolic matter.
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