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In a new physics milestone, scientists report that a time crystal and an external system have been successfully linked for the first time.
The achievement, made by researchers at Aalto University’s Department of Applied Physics, marks the first demonstration of converting a time crystal—an unusual quantum system in which particles are in constant, repetitive motion in its ground state—into an optomechanical system.
A range of potential technological applications, including new high-precision sensors, quantum storage systems, and other innovative capabilities, could result from the research, led by Jere Mäkinen and detailed in a new paper appearing in Nature Communications.
Conceptually similar to physical crystalline forms that occur in nature, time crystals were first proposed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek in 2012, who argued that comparable systems might also exist in time as well as in space.
Wilczek’s theory preceded the official experimental discovery of time crystals by just four years, which can be thought of as an unusual manifestation of matter whose motion repeats indefinitely.
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The achievement, made by researchers at Aalto University’s Department of Applied Physics, marks the first demonstration of converting a time crystal—an unusual quantum system in which particles are in constant, repetitive motion in its ground state—into an optomechanical system.
A range of potential technological applications, including new high-precision sensors, quantum storage systems, and other innovative capabilities, could result from the research, led by Jere Mäkinen and detailed in a new paper appearing in Nature Communications.
Conceptually similar to physical crystalline forms that occur in nature, time crystals were first proposed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek in 2012, who argued that comparable systems might also exist in time as well as in space.
Wilczek’s theory preceded the official experimental discovery of time crystals by just four years, which can be thought of as an unusual manifestation of matter whose motion repeats indefinitely.
“Perpetual Motion is Possible in the Quantum Realm": Researchers Link a 'Time Crystal' to an External Device in a Breakthrough First
In a new physics milestone, scientists report that a “time crystal” and an external system have been successfully linked for the first time.
thedebrief.org
