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Tunable entangled photon-pair generation in a liquid crystal
- westurner 2y agoFrom https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589972 : > Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07492-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07492-z : > Abstract: [...] This work opens the door to the exploration of dipolar quantum matter in regimes that have been inaccessible so far, promising the creation of exotic dipolar droplets, self-organized crystal phases and dipolar spin liquids in optical lattices. > Given that each molecule is in an identical, known state, they could be separated to form quantum bits, or qubits, the units of information in a quantum computer. The molecules’ quantum rotational states — which can be used to store information — can remain robust for perhaps minutes at a time, allowing for long and complex calculations