Quasicrystal

The latest time crystal innovation may expand the known boundaries of quantum mechanics.

Research using a quantum computer as the physical platform for quantum experiments has found a way to design and characterize tailor-made magnetic objects using quantum bits, or qubits. That opens up a new approach to develop new materials and robust quantum computing.

A type of crystal that breaks the rules of ordinary crystallography has been found in a tube of melted sand from Nebraska.

By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at a quantum computer's qubits, physicists have created a remarkable, never-before-seen phase of matter. The phase has the benefits of two time dimensions despite there still being only one singular flow of time, the physicists report in Nature. This mind-bending property offers a sought-after benefit: Information is far more protected against…

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MIT physicists coaxed superconductivity and more from quasicrystals. The work introduces a flexible platform for making the enigmatic materials that could jump-start interest in the field and allow new studies of exotic phenomena.

A researcher won a bet by performing an experiment a colleague said wouldn't work. The result was the largest quasicrystal ever made

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The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds' eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random.

The atoms within quasicrystals are arranged in repeating forms, but unlike ordinary crystals they have more complex symmetry. It turns out this makes them perfect for producing mazes

The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are ...

Quasicrystals (QCs) have peculiar structures with interesting atomic arrangements. Although they are similar to crystals from the exterior, at the atomic scale, they lack periodicity despite being ordered. Such structural arrangements confer quasicrystals with symmetries and other special properties that are missing in crystals. In particular, icosahedral QCs (i QCs), which have a special geometric structure, show…

The surprisingly simple tile is the first single, connected tile that can fill the entire plane in a pattern that never repeats — and can't be made to fill it in a repeating way.

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Handling errors is one of the hot areas of research to advance quantum computing

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The creation and exploration of incredibly complex mazes on infinitely large irregular structures that describe quasicrystals could lead to efficiency boosts in industrial processes, among many other applications.

Researchers used quasicrystals to design the world's most difficult maze, offering potential breakthroughs in carbon capture technology.