Quantum simulation of dark energy candidates

Funding

The authors thank Clare Burrage and Ben Thrussell for helpful comments. D. H. acknowledges funding from the Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS) under the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Project No. W 1210-N25. C. K. is supported by the School of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Nottingham and via a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Research Excellence. R. H. and I. F. would like to acknowledge that this project was made possible through the support of the Penrose Institute and the grant "Leaps in cosmology: Gravitational wave detection with quantum systems" (No. 58745) from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.