Tremendous chilly atoms might clear up a quantum computing conundrum
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Ultracold atoms that always transfer in repeating patterns, in a type of matter known as a time crystal, could possibly be used to construct quantum computer systems that produce fewer errors.
In typical computer systems, printed circuit boards encompass stable supplies like plastic. A circuit board produced from time crystals would contain 1000’s of atoms nearly 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”.…
