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@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year 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.