Scientists merge two 'impossible' materials into new artificial structure

Scientists merge two 'impossible' materials into new artificial structure

An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that could lead to new materials at the core of quantum computing.

In recent years, quantum physics has brought to light a strange form of matter: temporal crystals. Unlike ordinary crystals, which possess a repetitive structure in space, these crystals of a new kind evolve according to a cycle that repeats itself over time, without the addition of external energy. A phenomenon that seems to defy the laws [...]

Scientists Merge Two “Impossible” Materials Into New Artificial Structure

An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that could lead to new materials at the core of quantum computing. The work, described in a cover story in the journal Nano Letters, explains how four years of continuous experimentation led to a novel met