According to a study published in Nature earlier this year, physicists created a new phase of matter after shooting a laser pulse sequence at a quantum computer.
They think that the new phase of matter is more robust in preserving information than current methods.
With current technology, keeping qubits in their quantum states is a precarious task.
A qubit is a one or zero that is not an ordinary bit. A qubit can be a one or zero at the same time, which could allow quantum computers to do far more advanced calculations that take classical computers orders of magnitude longer to complete.
It will take a long time for quantum computers to be practical in everyday use. The qubits need an extremely controlled environment in which a small change in temperature can cause them to lose their quantum states.
A regular qubit at each end of a line of ten atoms retained its quantum state for 1.5 seconds. When they blasted those atoms with a pulse of laser light, the qubits lasted just over five minutes.
Physicists say that the reason that happens is due to time itself.
The system can behave as if there are two different directions of time, thanks to the use of quasi-periodic sequence based on the Fibonacci pattern.
Why do the numbers have a certain number? Physicists say that when you shoot a laser pulse, it acts as a quasicrystal, a structure of matter that sticks to a pattern but is not periodic.
The words were ordered but not repeated.
There is a complicated evolution that cancels out all the errors that live on the edge. The edge stays quantum-mechanically coherent a lot longer than you would think.
Scientists suggest our brains work like quantum computers.
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