Emergence of helicity ±2 modes (gravitons) from qubit models |
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Authors: | Zheng-Cheng Gu Xiao-Gang Wen |
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Institution: | 1. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;2. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;3. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada |
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Abstract: | We construct two quantum qubit models (or quantum spin models) on three-dimensional lattice in space, L-type model and N-type model. We show that, under a controlled approximation, all the low energy excitations of the L-type model are described by one set of helicity ±2 modes with ω∝k3 dispersion. We also argue that all the low energy excitations of the N-type model are described by one set of helicity ±2 modes with ω∝k dispersion. In both model, the low energy helicity ±2 modes can be described by a symmetric tensor field hμν in continuum limit, and the gaplessness of the helicity ±2 modes is protected by an emergent linearized diffeomorphism gauge symmetry hμν→hμν+∂μfν+∂νfμ at low energies. Thus the linearized quantum gravity emerge from our lattice models . It turns out that the low energy effective Lagrangian density of the L-type model is invariant under the linearized diffeomorphism gauge transformation. Such a property protects the gapless ω∝k3 helicity ±2 modes. In contrast, the low energy effective Lagrangian of the N-type model changes by a boundary term under the linearized diffeomorphism gauge transformation. Such a property protects the gapless ω∝k helicity ±2 modes. From many-body physics point of view, the ground states of the our two qubit model represent new states of quantum matter, whose low energy excitations are all described by one set of gapless helicity ±2 modes. |
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Keywords: | Strongly correlated quantum systems Emergence Quantum gravity |
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