Thomas Iadecola patiently explained his theoretical and analytical work in the title of the latest research paper.
He gave explanations of nonequilibrium systems, time crystals, and 2T periodicity.
The study of how states of matter emerge from collections of atoms and subatomic particles can be counterintuitive.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that the physics prize to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz was for revealing more and more of the secrets of exotic matter.
The new paper published in the journal Nature and co-authored by Iadecola, an Iowa State University assistant professor of physics and astronomy and an Ames National Laboratory scientist, describes simulations using quantum computing that enabled observation of a distinct state of matter taken out of its normal equilibrium.
The author of the paper is a professor at Tsinghua University. Deng and Iadecola were both working at the University of Maryland.
The authors said that their work paved the way to explore novel non-equilibrium phases of matter.
One day those novel states of matter could be useful for new technologies. There are possible applications for quantum information processing.
Iadecola was a support scientist for the project. He said that his role is to help define the questions the experimentalists need to address.
How a quantum computing platform can be used to study and understand exotic states of matter is one of the major questions answered in the paper.
The researchers have a nice digital quantum simulation platform. This platform can be used to solve other interesting problems in quantum physics.
This summer, Iadecola will begin work on the project. Figuring out how quantum states can be preserved will be part of the project. It would be possible to use the states for quantum computation, a new technology that uses quantum dynamics to process and store information.
Iadecola would like to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum in quantum computing at Iowa State.
A summary of the project says it will be approached with a view towards emerging quantum technologies.
Iadecola said they were thinking about new phenomena. The stage for moving us toward these applications in quantum information processing could be set by realizing these phenomena on present- day quantum hardware.
More information: Xu Zhang et al, Digital quantum simulation of Floquet symmetry-protected topological phases, Nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04854-3 Journal information: Nature
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