An international team of scientists has observed a never-before-seen exotic phase of matter on a quantum processor using Google’s 58-qubit AI chip Willow, which previously suggested we may live in a multiverse.
The research team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany, New Jersey’s Princeton University and Google Quantum AI, realized a Floquet topologically ordered state for the very first time.
The state is a non-equilibrium quantum state of matter in a system driven by a time-periodic Hamiltonian, which is a physical system whose governing rules change over time, but with a repeating, predictable cycle.
This exotic phase had been theoretically proposed for years, but until now it had never been directly observed in any experiment. According to TUM, this marks a great step ahead in the study of quantum matter.
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