Employees of the oldest US Harvard University have created a unique substance called quantum spin liquid. Its existence was predicted by the physicist Philip Anderson almost half a century ago. It is expected that the study of a new state of matter will make it possible to create quantum computers and superconductors with increased resistance to external interference.
A quantum spin liquid is not a liquid in the usual sense of the word, but a special state of matter, when electrons do not stabilize during cooling and do not turn into a solid, but continue to constantly change and influence each other. To create a quantum fluid that has never been observed in nature, scientists used a programmable quantum simulator, developed by them several years ago, according to the journal Science.
The creation of a quantum fluid made it possible to observe an unprecedented sight. On the one hand, the atoms forming it are capable of existing in several states simultaneously. On the other hand, these atoms can influence each other at vast distances compared to their size and even transmit information to each other. All this resembles the processes taking place in the “bowels” of a computer.
“This is a special moment for science,” says Harvard professor Mikhail Lukin, amazed at the finally opened opportunity to “touch” the quantum spin liquid that has become reality, manipulate its state and study its properties.
Source: Rosbalt
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