Strange New Matter in Which Time Has ‘Two Dimensions’ Created by Scientists

Strange New Matter , in Which Time Has 'Two Dimensions', Created by Scientists.

'The Independent' reports that scientists have created a new phase of matter that exists in two dimensions of time.

According to the team that found this "extra" dimension, the discovery could help build quantum computers and change the way we understand reality.

Researchers found the strange phase of matter by flashing lasers in a pattern of pulses inspired by the Fibonacci sequence at atoms inside a quantum computer.

Researchers found the strange phase of matter by flashing lasers in a pattern of pulses inspired by the Fibonacci sequence at atoms inside a quantum computer.

Researchers found the strange phase of matter by flashing lasers in a pattern of pulses inspired by the Fibonacci sequence at atoms inside a quantum computer.

The discovery has the potential to make years of theoretical research an experimental reality.

Currently, quantum computing is error-prone due to the instability of qubits, or quantum bits.

In practice, experimental devices have many sources of error that can degrade coherence after just a few laser pulses, Philipp Dumitrescu, from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics in New York City, via 'The Independent'.

The new phase of matter creates a special arrangement in time that adds extra symmetry from an extra dimension that doesn't actually exist.

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The team is now working to integrate the discovery with functional quantum computers to improve stability and resilience.

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We have this direct, tantalizing application, but we need to find a way to hook it into the calculations.

That’s an open problem we’re working on, Philipp Dumitrescu, from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics in New York City, via 'The Independent'.

‘Dynamical topological phase realized in a trapped-ion quantum simulator’ was published in the journal 'Nature.'