Sentences with phrase «energy superposition»

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Cooling the system snaps it out of the superposition, so that it settles into a single, low - energy state that represents the final answer, an approach known as quantum annealing (W. D. Oliver Nature 473, 164 - 165; 2011).

In the new study, physicists went a step further, putting atoms into a quantum superposition, a kind of limbo in which an atom does not have a definite energy but occupies a combination of two energy levels.

Quantum test of the equivalence principle for atoms in superpositions of internal energy eigenstates.

For example, what if we can control the superposition of an atom with, say, 16 different energy levels?

To find optimal solutions, researchers first put qubits, made of superconducting loops, into their lowest energy state, in which each is in a quantum superposition of both «on» and «off».

On the other hand, Cleland adds, the potential advantage of a mechanical system over an electronic system is that its qubits might intrinsically lose energy more slowly and thus remain in superposition longer, enabling them to perform more useful, complex calculations.

The most efficient pathway is selected and energy is transferred through the bacterium as the superposition collapses.

Using ultrafast lasers, they found that the interaction between the sun's energy and the chlorophyll molecules in a bacterium relies on a piece of quantum mechanical weirdness known as superposition, where a single photon's energy can temporarily be in many different states at once.

To explain the near - perfect performance of plants, biophysicists reasoned, the energy must exist in a quantum superposition state, traveling along all molecular pathways at the same time — similar to the quantum computer that could simultaneously search all entries in a database.

This means the sodium atoms enter superposition — they are in two energy states simultaneously.

These probes must be in a quantum superposition of two distinct energy states first, each of which gets modified by a different amount that depends on the BEC's temperature.