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Researchers Simulate Quantum Networks With Time Crystals
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Researchers in Japan have discovered that time crystals can be used to simulate complex quantum networks.
Time crystals are a newly discovered type of matter whose atoms self-organized in regular patterns while also showing regularity in the dimension of time. Researchers at the National Institute of Informatics, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Osaka University, the Japanese-French Laboratory of Informatics, and Tokyo University of Science describe their work in "Simulating Complex Quantum Networks with Time Crystals," published in Science Advances.
Little is known about time crystals' properties and applications. The researchers focused on the application of tools commonly used in network theory to represent these systems which allows for a deeper understanding of their structures. They were able to represent the melting of a time crystal in terms of networks and found the emergence of a special type of structure: scale-free networks.
The research shows that complex network structures such as scale-free networks emerge from slowly melting a discrete time crystal that needs twice the time to go back to its initial position.
From National Institute of Informatics
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