Ion experiment aces quantum scrambling test
Date | 6th, Mar 2019 |
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Source | EurekAlert - Scientific News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles.Their experiments on a group of seven atomic ions demonstrate a new way to distinguish between scrambling and true information loss. The protocol may one day help verify the calculations of quantum computers, which harness the rules of quantum physics to process information in novel ways.