Google says it has created a time crystal in a quantum computer, and it's weirder than you can imagine

[RV_]

This is about to be peer reviewed then published so just a preview.

Excerpt:

"In what could be the first useful application of quantum computing, Google's scientists have demonstrated the existence of a new phase of matter.

Google's scientists now rather excitingly say that their results establish a "scalable approach" to study time crystals on current quantum processors.  

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In a new research paper, Google scientists claim to have used a quantum processor for a useful scientific application: to observe a genuine time crystal. 

If 'time crystal' sounds pretty sci-fi that's because they are. Time crystals are no less than a new "phase of matter", as researchers put it, which has been theorized for some years now as a new state that could potentially join the ranks of solids, liquids, gases, crystals and so on. The paper remains in pre-print and still requires peer review."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-says-it-has-created-a-time-crystal-in-a-quantum-computer-and-its-weirder-than-you-can-imagine/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid={%24external_id}&mid={%24MESSAGE_ID}&cid={%24contact_id}&eh={%24CF_emailHash}

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Edited August 6, 2021 by RV_

[Jim & Alice]

52 minutes ago, RV_ said:

This is about to be peer reviewed then published so just a preview.

 

Thanks, Derek.   Something to be watching for...

 

[RV_]

YW Jim. As this progresses it will be interesting at the least.