Beyond Time Crystals - What The Quantum System
You’ve undoubtedly heard of a crystal. We’ve all seen them, handled them in our hands, and even eaten them (for example, sodium chloride crystals, popularly known as “salt”). But what is a Time Crystal if not a sci-fi device in the newest Marvel film? Why do we require a quantum computer to construct one? And what exactly is a quantum computer? Bits and Qubits Let’s begin there. Computers may be found everywhere around us. Some are small and portable, primarily used to stream Netflix, while others take up entire rooms and mimic complicated phenomena such as weather or the formation of our Universe. Regardless of the specifics, computers all serve the same purpose: to process information. “Bits” are used to store and process information. Any physical system with two different states (designated “0” and “1”) can function as a bit. Connecting a large number of bits in the appropriate way allows you to perform arithmetic, lo...