Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took an image of what it was like to cross between worlds.
The team captured images of super-cold atoms in the process of changing from being governed by classical and quantum physics. The goal was to freeze them in place so that they could be observed on a quantum level.
The string of particles became a pattern of quantum tornadoes as they transitioned.
The authors are Mukherjee et al.
Rule breaking.
Particles don't have a set location like you and the objects around you in the quantum world. atoms are governed by the principle that a particle's given location is a probability. The typical rules of physics don't apply because an atom has a chance of being in two places at the same time.
The co-author of the study said that the crystallization is driven by interactions and tells us we are going from the classical world to the quantum world.
Leaving Kansas.
When particles interact this way, they should show odd behavior, but observing quantum mechanics in the classical world isn't easy.
MIT scientists quickly rotating a quantum fluid of ultra-cold atoms to get past this limitation. The structure of the round cloud of atoms was thin.
The first direct documentation of a rapidly-rotating quantum gas evolving is the result of the needle breaking into a pattern of miniature quantum tornadoes.
The MIT physics professor and co-author said that this gives rise to intriguing pattern formation, like clouds wrapping around the Earth in beautiful spiral motions. We can study this in the quantum world.
IBM Director is ready for quantum computing app stores.
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