It could be a breakthrough for quantum physics! Scientists claimed to have figured out a way to manufacture a scientific oddity known as a time crystal. These crystals show a physics quirk where they remain ever-changing yet dynamically stable.
In simpler words, the time crystals do not give off energy as they change conformation, which violates natural law that all things gradually turn towards entropy and disorder. Now, it seems they exist, after all, reports Quanta Magazine.
From theory to reality
At least that’s what a big team of scientists from Stanford, Princeton, and others working with Google quantum computing lab claimed in preprint research. Apart from being a momentous accomplishment, the discovery could come in handy for the fussy nature of quantum computing.
“The consequence is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics,” study coauthor and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems director Roderich Moessner told Quanta.
This research is so important because the experts believe they have figured a way to bring time crystals from theoretical abstraction to tangible reality, notes The Next Web. The team behind the paper says they have experimentally showcased a time crystal for the first time.
Is there a practical use?
“There are good reasons to think that none of those experiments completely succeeded, and a quantum computer like [Google’s] would be particularly well placed to do much better than those earlier experiments,” University of Oxford physicist John Chalker, who wasn’t involved in the research, told Quanta.
If the research gets a nod after expert scrutiny, and scientists manage to use these time crystals in a practical way, then we might see practical quantum computers that can actually all the things that they are touted to be capable of.
Recently, KAIST scientists designed a new laser system capable of generating highly interactive quantum particles at room temperature. The findings showed that the breakthrough could lead to single microcavity laser systems that require low threshold energy as loss of energy surges. The system can produce a polariton laser at room temperature, which is significant as such generations usually require cryogenic temperatures.
