Description
Matrix quantum mechanics, most prominently the BFSS and BMN models, provides a powerful framework to study holographic phenomena such as fast scrambling, quantum chaos and emergent gravity. Yet, the strong-coupling regime remains difficult to access. This talk presents a genuinely different approach to extracting holographic information from these models based on quantum simulation. The idea is to realize a quantum optical Hamiltonian that converges to the target model for large matrix sizes, allowing one to study the strong-coupling regime through direct measurement. A bosonic implementation is discussed, as well as ideas and challenges of possible extensions.