{"id":88752,"date":"2019-03-18T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-reverse-time-using-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:22:52","slug":"physicists-reverse-time-using-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/physicists-reverse-time-using-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Physicists reverse time using quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. They also calculated the probability that an electron in empty interstellar space will spontaneously travel back into its recent past. The study<\/a> is published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one in a series of papers on the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics<\/a>. That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time from the past to the future,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Gordey Lesovik, who heads the Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information Technology at MIPT.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe began by describing<\/a> a so-called local perpetual motion machine of the second kind. Then, in December, we published a paper that discusses the violation of the second law via a device called a Maxwell\u2019s demon,\u201d Lesovik said. \u201cThe most recent paper approaches the same problem from a third angle: We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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