Otherworldly 'time crystal' made inside Google quantum computer could change physics forever - by Ben Turner - Oct. 2021
Otherworldly 'time crystal' made inside Google quantum computer could change physics forever by Ben Turner The crystal is able to forever cycle between states without losing energy. The time crystal was created inside Google's Sycamore chip, which is kept cool inside their quantum cryostat. (Image credit: Eric Lucero/Google, Inc.) Researchers working in partnership with Google may have just used the tech giant's quantum computer to create a completely new phase of matter — a time crystal. With the ability to forever cycle between two states without ever losing energy, time crystals dodge one of the most important laws of physics — the second law of thermodynamics , which states that the disorder, or entropy, of an isolated system must always increase. These bizarre time crystals remain stable, resisting any dissolution into randomness, despite existing in a constant state of flux. According to a research article posted July 28 to the preprint database arXiv , scientis...