{"id":111479,"date":"2020-08-17T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/first-ever-observation-of-time-crystals-interacting"},"modified":"2020-08-17T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T19:22:29","slug":"first-ever-observation-of-time-crystals-interacting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/first-ever-observation-of-time-crystals-interacting","title":{"rendered":"First ever observation of \u2018time crystals\u2019 interacting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-observation-of-time-crystals-interacting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter known as \u201ctime crystals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, published in <i>Nature Materials<\/i>, may lead to applications in quantum information processing because time crystals automatically remain intact\u2014coherent\u2014in varying conditions. Protecting coherence is the main difficulty hindering the development of powerful quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Samuli Autti, lead author from Lancaster University, said: \u201cControlling the interaction of two time crystals is a major achievement. Before this, nobody had observed two time crystals in the same system, let alone seen them interact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter known as \u201ctime crystals\u201d. The discovery, published in Nature Materials, may lead to applications in quantum information processing because time crystals automatically remain intact\u2014coherent\u2014in varying conditions. Protecting coherence is the main difficulty hindering the development of powerful quantum computers. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}