An ion lure helped create a quantum defect in two locations directly
ANDREW BROOKES, NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Unique quantum rifts have been created with charged atoms, and so they exist in a superposition of being in two locations directly. This can be a first step in the direction of higher understanding the behaviour of such quantum defects in every thing from supplies to a complete universe.
Defects are ubiquitous – consider tears in textiles or cloudy imperfections in shiny crystals – however in quantum methods, they’ll have the additional property of being topological. Meaning the general construction of the…
