An ion lure helped create a quantum defect in two locations without delay
ANDREW BROOKES, NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Unique quantum rifts have been created with charged atoms, they usually exist in a superposition of being in two locations without delay. This can be a first step in direction of higher understanding the behaviour of such quantum defects in all the things from supplies to a complete universe.
Defects are ubiquitous – consider tears in textiles or cloudy imperfections in shiny crystals – however in quantum programs, they’ll have the additional property of being topological. Which means the general construction of the…
