Apr 11, 2020
The ‘quantum magnet’
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, engineering, particle physics, quantum physics
Circa 2011 essentially a magnet could be a battery and cpu and a gpu with magnonics.
Harvard physicists have expanded the possibilities for quantum engineering of novel materials such as high-temperature superconductors by coaxing ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice — a light crystal — to self-organize into a magnet, using only the minute disturbances resulting from quantum mechanics. The research, published in the journal Nature, is the first demonstration of such a “quantum magnet” in an optical lattice.
As modern technology depends more and more on materials with exotic quantum mechanical properties, researchers are coming up against a natural barrier.