Time crystals, considered physically impossible until 2016, were officially discovered and confirmed that year. Although time crystals are basically similar to regular crystals, to a big difference they have. While in normal crystals the atoms have a fixed three-dimensional structure and all their movement is dependent on external force, the atoms of time crystals behave very differently.

Atoms of time crystals in a way that cannot be explained by external force alone it moves. These oscillations, called ‘ticks’, are regular and locked to a certain frequency, and they perform this movement in the lowest energy state. As studies on time crystals, one of science’s greatest mysteries, continue, a major development has been announced in the scientific world today.

Building block made of quantum computers

Scientists have made a big step forward for quantum computing equipment, which looks like a throwaway item from science fiction movies with time crystals. scientists, in an experiment that pushes the laws of physics to their limits they have managed to create a binary system made up of two separate time crystals. To make the system, two time crystals were first formed and then these time crystals were brought into contact with each other.

As the time crystals come into contact with each other, magnon swap took place. Semi-particles called magnons are produced when Helium-3, a stable isotope of helium with two protons but only one neutron, is cooled to one ten-thousandth of a degree zero. With the magnon exchange, the time crystals influenced each other’s oscillation and A single system with the ability to operate in two states revealed.

This resulting two-state system is a was the basic building block of the quantum computer† It is envisioned that time crystals could be used in the future to create quantum devices that operate at room temperature. This means that the work currently done with multi-million dollar systems and in highly specialized environments can be done more broadly and at a lower cost.