量子纠缠相遇超导性
休斯顿 Rice 大学的一项实验将量子纠缠和量子临界关联起来。两种此前被认为区别的量子现象在最新实验中显示背后存在相同的物理学规律,未来也许能发展出将纠缠和超导结合起来的大一统理论。研究报告发表在《科学》期刊上。
研究集中在由镱、铑和硅构成的金属薄膜,Rice 大学的研究团队分析了金属薄膜的性质,他们观察到了量子临界行为,同时还在数以亿计的电子中观察到了广泛的量子纠缠。 Rice 大学量子材料中心主任 Qimiao Si 教授说,10 个量子比特就已经足够大了,如此多的电子被量子纠缠使其潜在能成为一种量子工程资源。 相关链接: 1.https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/computing/hardware/quantum-entanglement-superconductivity-technology-news-novel-experiment 2.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/285 关键词: 量子纠缠
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dushunli 2020-01-31 00:27量子纠缠!
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tassy 2020-01-31 01:44显示背后存在相同的物理学规律
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lufan 2020-01-31 02:14电子被量子纠缠使其潜在能成为一种量子工程资源
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mang2004 2020-01-31 07:20Quantum Entanglement Meets Superconductivity in Novel Experiment
Two mysterious components of quantum technology came together in a lab at Rice University in Houston recently. Quantum entanglement—the key to quantum computing—and quantum criticality—an essential ingredient for high-temperature superconductors—have now been linked in a single experiment.
The preliminary results suggest something approaching the same physics is behind these two essential but previously distinct quantum technologies. The temptation, then, is to imagine a future in which a sort of grand unified theory of entanglement and superconductivity might be developed, where breakthroughs in one field could be translated into the other.
The research centers around a thin film of a metal (composed of the elements ytterbium, rhodium, and silicon) fabricated by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology. A team at Rice, then, analyzed its peculiar properties.
They observed the film in a state that both exhibited so-called “quantum critical” behavior and a widespread level of quantum entanglement among billions of its electrons.
“Usually with qubits, you build one; you build two; if you get to ten, that’s a large number,” said Qimiao Si, professor of physics at Rice and director of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials. “There’s a tantalizing promise that collectively, there’s so many electrons that are quantum mechanically entangled, and they could potentially be a resource for quantum engineering.”
The film’s quantum critical state, which is separate and distinct from its observed quantum entanglement, comes courtesy of the film’s composition. Si said the team relied on previous research that’s established this film has a net-zero magnetic field—but only because its electrons are aligned electron-by-electron, one against the other. This “anti-ferromagnetic” behavior is a hallmark of its quantum critical state.
“As a field, we’d like to understand the nature of quantum criticality,” Si said. The present research, he added, helps in that quest.
Si and colleagues cooled their metal film down near absolute zero to observe its response to a range of terahertz radiation beams. Although less than 0.1 percent of any given terahertz beam transmitted through the film, the researchers found that if they integrated their observations over many hours, they could piece together a weak signal.
And when they compared those weak signals at various temperatures and terahertz frequencies, they found a collective behavior among the electrons that the terahertz radiation probed. The behavior consists of a scaling relationship between the temperature of the sample and the radiation’s frequency—indicating a quantum synchrony among the electrons in the metal film that Si says strongly suggests the electrons are all entangled.
Tell any quantum computer scientist that entanglement can be generated not in the dozens or hundreds of particles but rather in the millions or billions, and they might be inclined to take a gander.
On the other hand, tell any superconductivity researcher that the same phenomenon that’s potentially at the root of their Holy Grail quest (quantum criticality) happens in the apparent presence of quantum entanglement, and they might want to know more, too.
“It took a long time to demonstrate that this kind of quantum criticality involves quantum entanglement in an essential way,” Si said. “This is (also) fundamental research that has the potential to provide the design principles for high-temperature superconductivity.”
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redplum 2020-01-31 08:59真的很牛逼啊
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likaihit 2020-01-31 09:07不太明白
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木子示羊 2020-01-31 09:11量子纠缠相遇超导性
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星空38 2020-01-31 10:01休斯顿 Rice 大学的一项实验将量子纠缠和量子临界关联起来。
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thorn12345 2020-01-31 10:2910 个量子比特就已经足够大了
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realyan 2020-01-31 11:42很厉害啊