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
      6•10 months 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.

        • @CanadaPlus
          5•10 months 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 frozen in slow-mo or whatever.

    • elouboub
      6•10 months ago

      Very frustrating.

      This allowed them to design and map this very complicated problem onto a relatively small quantum device ­– and then slow the process down by a factor of 100 billion.

      What does this even mean???

    • BeboOP
      2•10 months ago

      Tried to access the journal article but it’s pay walled. The abstract doesn’t explain much.