Physicists in Australia create the largest time crystal to date

In Australia, physicists managed to form a larger time crystal already done so far. The simulation was performed remotely, by programming a quantum computer for IBM in the United States. Time crystals are one of the recent lines of research in quantum physics, being a possible new state of matter that is quite curious, because it changes its atomic structure not only with respect to space, but also in time..

University of Melbourne researchers Philip Frye and Stefan Rachel have managed to simulate time crystals of 57 quantum units! For comparison, in the previous year, Google researchers were able to run simulations with a size of up to 20 quantum units.

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Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize winner and theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was the first to think about the existence of time crystals. However, in 2012 his theory was not well accepted. But in 2016, with the use of quantum computers, it was possible for the first time to observe experimentally Wilczek’s theories, which proved to be not only possible, but also testable.

Research with time crystals brings progress not only in the field of physics, but also demonstrates the full potential of quantum computing, which is a very important ally for further studies and experiments, providing gains in many areas of scientific knowledge.

Although simulations were successful in forming such a large crystal, there is still a lot to be done for the motion, which tends to be permanent, to maintain itself and be stable. Time is the key to new breakthroughs.