Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process down by 100 billion times
www.sydney.edu.au
In a world-first experimental result, scientists at the University of Sydney have used a quantum computer to coax an atom to behave the same way as a photo-chemical process that underpins the speed of human vision and solar energy harvesting - only at speeds 100 billion times slower than in nature.

New research - and a world-first experimental result - display the potential for using quantum technology to explore new designs in material science, drugs or solar energy harvesting.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    It was simulated on the quantum “device”. Source: it pretty much says so in the article description. The atom singular mentioned here would be the quantum memory.

    A very clickbaity and misleading choice of headline, which is unbecoming of an actual university.

    • CubbyTustard@reddthat.com
      4·
      1 year ago

      this pull quote

      “Our experiment wasn’t a digital approximation of the process – this was a direct analogue observation of the quantum dynamics unfolding at a speed we could observe,”

      really makes it sound like it wasn’t a simulation but I believe you are right it’s just all misleadingly worded

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        5·
        1 year ago

        It sounds like it was an analogue simulation as opposed to a digital one, then, but they don’t want to use the s-word. It definitely didn’t involve an actual rhodopsin molecule or whatever.