A quantum simulator of impossible physics
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The research group Quantum Technologies for Information Science (QUTIS) of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Countr has created a quantum simulator that is capable of creating unphysical phenomena in the atomic world—in other words, impossible physical phenomena. The researchers have succeeded in getting a trapped atom to imitate behaviours that contradict its own fundamental laws, thus taking elements of science fiction to the microscopic world.