Tremendous chilly atoms might clear up a quantum computing conundrum
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Ultracold atoms that consistently transfer in repeating patterns, in a type of matter referred to as a time crystal, may very well be used to construct quantum computer systems that produce fewer errors.
In standard computer systems, printed circuit boards include stable supplies like plastic. A circuit board made out of time crystals would contain 1000’s of atoms virtually as chilly as absolute zero, one of many circumstances required for quantum phenomena to unfold. Krzysztof Sacha on the Jagiellonian College in Poland and his colleagues developed a mathematical blueprint for such “temporal printed circuit boards”.…
