Simulation of Black Holes: Quantum Information, Scrambling, and Evaporation

This PhD project explores how table-top quantum simulators—such as spin chains, optical lattices, or superconducting qubit arrays—can reproduce key features of black holes, including Hawking radiation, information scrambling, and quantum information recovery during black hole evaporation. The goal is to develop and study effective condensed-matter models that mimic the spacetime geometry and chaotic dynamics of black holes under controlled laboratory conditions. By combining analytical and numerical methods, the project will investigate how quantum correlations evolve across an emergent event horizon and how information can be lost, scrambled, or recovered in such systems. The student will join an active research group working at the interface of quantum information, many-body physics, and quantum gravity analogues, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with both theoretical and experimental teams exploring quantum simulation platforms. This PhD offers a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most ambitious questions in modern physics—understanding how quantum information behaves in the presence of gravity—through models that can be realised and tested in the laboratory.