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Observation of gravity-like signatures in holographic codes on a quantum computer

by
  • Debopriyo Biswas
  • Gong Cheng
  • Krishnanand Karthikeyan
  • Diana Muñoz-Valencia
  • Vincent Su
  • Hrant Gharibyan
  • Daiwei Zhu
  • Grant Salton
  • Evgeny Epifanovsky
  • Martin Roetteler
  • Christopher Monroe
  • John Preskill
  • Norbert Linke
  • ChunJun Cao
  • Crystal Noel
2026 arXiv: 2607.12047   (2026)
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The unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity remains one of the major open problems of theoretical physics. The Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence provides a valuable theoretical framework for this effort via a holographic duality between a theory of quantum gravity in asymptotically AdS spacetime and a conformal quantum field theory on the lower-dimensional boundary. Here, we implement a toy model of this duality called the HaPPY code, a quantum error-correcting code in the form of a tensor network with hyperbolic entanglement patterns, on a trapped-ion quantum computer. We present the first experimental confirmation of the Faulkner-Lewkowycz-Maldacena formula in this model - a key test of the holographic correspondence. We then enrich it with non-stabilizerness, or magic, and observe entropic precursors expected of emergent gravity. Finally, we present and measure a code construction whose entropic behavior is reminiscent of a highly quantum wormhole. Our experiments illustrate how quantum computers can serve as testbeds for modeling the emergence of spacetime.

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