Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100bn
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100bn
In a world-first experimental result, scientists at the University of Sydney have used a quantum computer to coax an atom to behave the same way as a photo-chemical process that underpins the speed of human vision and solar energy harvesting - only at speeds 100 billion times slower than in nature.
New research - and a world-first experimental result - display the potential for using quantum technology to explore new designs in material science, drugs or solar energy harvesting.
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Very frustrating.
This allowed them to design and map this very complicated problem onto a relatively small quantum device – and then slow the process down by a factor of 100 billion.
What does this even mean???
It was simulated on the quantum "device". Source: it pretty much says so in the article description. The atom singular mentioned here would be the quantum memory.
A very clickbaity and misleading choice of headline, which is unbecoming of an actual university.
this pull quote
“Our experiment wasn’t a digital approximation of the process – this was a direct analogue observation of the quantum dynamics unfolding at a speed we could observe,”
really makes it sound like it wasn't a simulation but I believe you are right it's just all misleadingly worded
It sounds like it was an analogue simulation as opposed to a digital one, then, but they don't want to use the s-word. It definitely didn't involve an actual rhodopsin molecule frozen in slow-mo or whatever.
Tried to access the journal article but it's pay walled. The abstract doesn't explain much.
check out sci-hub.se
Great thanks!