The discovery offers a way of storing quantum information that is less prone to errors.
by the institution published on Wednesday. The researchers created the strange material by shining a sequence of laser pulses inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum computer.Information stored in the strange new phase of matter is far more protected against errors than information stored with the conventional setups currently used in quantum computers.
Quantum computers use elements called qubits to store and handle information, but there's a problem with that. Interacting with these qubits messes with their states leading to problems and errors."Even if you keep all the atoms under tight control, they can lose their quantumness by talking to their environment, heating up or interacting with things in ways you didn’t plan,” Dumitrescu said.
The scientists were therefore looking for ways to make these qubits more robust. To achieve that, physicists can use properties that hold up to change such as ‘symmetries."Dumitrescu and his team used the creation of a quasicrystal in time rather than space and proceeded to develop a quasi-periodic laser-pulse regimen based on the Fibonacci sequence."In such a sequence, each part of the sequence is the sum of the two previous parts .
Further tests undertaken by the physicists demonstrated that the new phase of matter can act as long-term quantum information storage. However, the researchers still need to functionally integrate the phase with the computational side of quantum computing. “That’s an open problem we’re working on," said Dumitrescu. Should they come up with a solution it could forever change how we approach
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