{"id":142954,"date":"2022-07-27T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/physicists-create-new-phase-of-matter-with-extra-time-dimension"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:24:28","slug":"physicists-create-new-phase-of-matter-with-extra-time-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/physicists-create-new-phase-of-matter-with-extra-time-dimension","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Create New Phase of Matter With \u201cExtra\u201d Time Dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-new-phase-of-matter-with-extra-time-dimension2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very exciting to see this unusual phase of matter realized in an actual experiment, especially because the mathematical description is based on a theoretical \u2018extra\u2019 time dimension,\u201d Philipp Dumitrescu, study co-author and research fellow at the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, told the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>In order to successfully create the topological phase, and thus the \u201cextra\u201d dimension, the scientists targeted a quantum computer\u2019s quantum bits \u2014 or qubits \u2014 with a quasi-periodic laser pulse based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37470-fibonacci-sequence.html\" class=\"\">Fibonacci sequence<\/a>. Think <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/first-nuclear-bomb-forged-strange-object\" class=\"\">quasicrystal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fibonacci sequence is a non-repeating but also not totally random sequence,\u201d study co-author Andrew Potter, a quantum physicist at the University of British Columbia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/93abqp\/quantum-scientists-create-new-phase-of-matter-with-two-time-dimensions\" class=\"\">told <em>Vice<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWhich effectively lets us realize two independent time-dimensions in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is very exciting to see this unusual phase of matter realized in an actual experiment, especially because the mathematical description is based on a theoretical \u2018extra\u2019 time dimension,\u201d Philipp Dumitrescu, study co-author and research fellow at the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, told the magazine. In order to successfully create the topological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142954","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}