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but this team hasn't shown any quantum effects in their fractal chip that you wouldn't expect from a normal chip, right? this is analogous to saying that 'all
by awinter-py 5y ago
but this team hasn't shown any quantum effects in their fractal chip that you wouldn't expect from a normal chip, right?
this is analogous to saying that 'all hexagons turn to ice when frozen' and then freezing a hexagon made of water. we already knew that water freezes to ice, we haven't discovered a novel property of hexagons
- mannykannot 5y agoI do not know if this gave results compatible with prior calculations, or whether the size of the setup was too large for calculating an expected outcome, but either way, if they had found something unexpected, I do not know why they would not mention it. All they say in the abstract of the paper is "Our experiment allows the verification of physical laws in a quantitative manner and reveals the transport dynamics in great detail", and to me "verification of physical laws" seems to be the opposite of finding anything unusual. There is value in demonstrating that our suppositions hold, but, by their very nature, such confirmations are unlikely to herald breakthroughs. They do not seem to have demonstrated anything specific to the Penrose - Hamerof hypothesis.