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quantum physics aka image of pure light

Spis treści

  1. Przełom w przechowywaniu informacji kwantowych
  2. Defekty atomowe w heksagonalnym azotku boru
  3. Mechanizmy kontroli spinów elektronów
  4. Praktyczne zastosowania nowej technologii
  5. Przyszłe kierunki badań

Przełom w przechowywaniu informacji kwantowych

Najnowsze odkrycie naukowców z Uniwersytetu w Cambridge rzuca nowe światło na możliwości przechowywania informacji kwantowych. Badania koncentrują się na wykorzystaniu defektów atomowych w heksagonalnym azotku boru (hBN) jako medium do przechowywania danych w warunkach pokojowych. To przełomowe odkrycie ma potencjał, by zrewolucjonizować wiele dziedzin technologii kwantowej.

Przechowywanie informacji kwantowych w temperaturze pokojowej stanowiło do tej pory ogromne wyzwanie technologiczne. Tradycyjne metody wymagają skomplikowanych i kosztownych systemów chłodzenia. Dzięki badaniom nad defektami atomowymi w hBN, możliwe stało się przechowywanie informacji kwantowych bez potrzeby stosowania takich systemów. Defekty te wykazują spójność spinową, co umożliwia efektywną kontrolę spinów elektronów przy użyciu światła.

Defekty atomowe w heksagonalnym azotku boru

Heksagonalny azotek boru jest dwuwymiarowym materiałem o strukturze podobnej do grafenu. Defekty atomowe w hBN, które wcześniej były uważane za wady materiału, okazały się kluczowe dla nowych metod przechowywania informacji kwantowych. Te defekty mogą działać jako indywidualne punkty przechowywania informacji, oferując stabilność i spójność wymaganą do takich zastosowań.

Mechanizmy kontroli spinów elektronów

Spin elektronu jest jedną z podstawowych właściwości kwantowych, którą można wykorzystać do przechowywania informacji. W badaniach wykazano, że defekty w hBN pozwalają na kontrolę spinów elektronów za pomocą światła. Ta właściwość umożliwia szybkie i precyzyjne operacje na informacjach kwantowych, co jest kluczowe dla rozwoju przyszłych technologii kwantowych.

Praktyczne zastosowania nowej technologii

Odkrycie ma szerokie potencjalne zastosowania, od czujników kwantowych po komputery kwantowe. Przechowywanie informacji kwantowych w temperaturze pokojowej otwiera nowe możliwości dla urządzeń przenośnych i zintegrowanych systemów kwantowych. W szczególności, czujniki kwantowe mogą skorzystać z tej technologii, umożliwiając bardziej precyzyjne pomiary w różnych dziedzinach, od medycyny po geologię.

Przyszłe kierunki badań

Mimo przełomowego charakteru odkrycia, przed naukowcami stoją jeszcze liczne wyzwania. Najważniejszym z nich jest wydłużenie czasu przechowywania informacji kwantowych, który obecnie wynosi mikrosekundy. Przyszłe badania będą koncentrować się na optymalizacji materiałów i technik kontrolowania spinów elektronów, aby osiągnąć bardziej trwałe i niezawodne przechowywanie informacji.

Odkrycie naukowców z Uniwersytetu w Cambridge otwiera nowe możliwości w dziedzinie przechowywania informacji kwantowych. Wykorzystanie defektów atomowych w heksagonalnym azotku boru jako medium do przechowywania danych kwantowych w temperaturze pokojowej może zrewolucjonizować technologie kwantowe. Choć istnieją jeszcze wyzwania do pokonania, to odkrycie stanowi ważny krok w kierunku bardziej praktycznych i szeroko dostępnych rozwiązań kwantowych.

Bibliografia

  1. Awschalom, D. D., Hanson, R., Wrachtrup, J., & Zhou, B. B. (2018). “Quantum technologies with optically interfaced solid-state spins.” Nature Photonics, 12(9), 516-527.
  2. Toth, M., & Aharonovich, I. (2019). “Single photon sources in atomically thin materials.” Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 70, 123-142.
  3. Atatüre, M., Englund, D., Vamivakas, A. N., Lee, S. Y., & Wrachtrup, J. (2018). “Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies.” Nature Reviews Materials, 3(5), 38-51.

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Transition video: Hubble and Webb's views of NGC 2090
Featured in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is the spiral galaxy NGC 2090, located in the constellation Columba. This combination of data from Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam instruments shows the galaxy’s two winding spiral arms and the swirling gas and dust of its disc in magnificent and unique detail. This was one of the group of galaxies studied early on by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, observing Cepheid variable stars in it as part of refining the measurement of the Hubble constant. The Cepheid-based measurement from that study in 1998 put NGC 2090 as 37 million light-years away; the newest measurements have NGC 2090 slightly farther away, at 40 million light-years. Hubble is to this day surveying galaxies in visible and ultraviolet light; alongside this Webb image a new Hubble image of NGC 2090 has also been published this week, which you can find here. Before and since that project, NGC 2090 has been well studied as a very prominent nearby example of star formation. It has been described as a flocculent spiral, meaning a spiral galaxy with a patchy, dusty disc and arms that are flaky or not visible at all. Visible-light images show this well, but the near-infrared data from NIRCam used in this image reveal the spiral arms with remarkable clarity. NIRCam also picks up bright light from stars, displayed by the blue colours most visible in the centre. Meanwhile, mid-infrared light emitted mainly by the important carbon-based compounds known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons along the many strands of gas and dust is captured by MIRI and shown here in red. These data on NGC 2090 were collected as part of an observing programme (#3707) taking a census of nearby massive, star-forming galaxies much like it. These galaxies are at just the right distance, with the right size and level of activity, that Webb’s instruments can capture a comprehensive picture of the star-forming activity, including the tightly-bound clusters that stars often form in, and the clouds of gas in the galaxy in which stars can be born. The rich collection of detailed images like this one will be of value to astronomers studying this area for years to come. More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2411a/ Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone - Twilight
Pan Video: NGC 2090
Featured in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is the spiral galaxy NGC 2090, located in the constellation Columba. This galaxy is notable as a part of the group of galaxies studied in Hubble’s Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project, which aimed to determine a new state-of-the-art value for the Hubble constant, one of the then-new telescope’s primary science goals. The contribution of NGC 2090 was in calibrating the Tully-Fisher (TF) distance method, by observing Cepheid variable stars in the galaxy. The Cepheid-based measurement from that study in 1998 put NGC 2090 as 37 million light-years away; the newest measurement from 2020, using the TF method, has NGC 2090 slightly farther away, at 40 million light-years. Before and since that project, NGC 2090 has been well studied as a very prominent nearby example of star formation. It has been described as a flocculent spiral, meaning a spiral galaxy with a patchy, dusty disc and arms that are flaky or not visible at all. This Hubble image shows well why NGC 2090 earned that description, but its spiral arms do appear among the dust as winding lanes of light. NGC 2090 is a galaxy still full of activity, with clusters of star formation at various stages of evolution spread across the disc. Examining star formation and the movement of matter in galaxies was the motivation for these Hubble observations, taken in October of this year. Likewise Hubble’s partner in space astronomy, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, has also spied on this galaxy to add infrared data to this overall picture of galaxy evolution. More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2448a/ Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) Music: Stellardrone - Ascent
Pan: NGC 2090
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Pan video: Sombrero Galaxy
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Transition video: Hubble and Webb’s views of the Sombrero Galaxy
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Zoom video: Sombrero Galaxy
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Pan video: Arp 107
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Pan: NGC 1559
The spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium, is the star of this Picture of the Week from the Hubble Space Telescope. It sports a glowing bar in its core, two main majestically winding spiral arms and clouds of dark dust across it. An image of this galaxy was previously released in 2021; this week’s image is entirely new and now includes H-alpha data. The improved coverage of star-forming nebulae, which are prominent emitters of the red H-alpha light, can be seen in the numerous glowing, pink spots across the disc of the galaxy. Interestingly, some astronomers posit that the galaxy’s ‘bar’ is actually an energetic star-forming region that just happens to lie over the galactic centre. The new data featured in this image come from a programme to extend the cooperation between multiple observatories: Hubble, the infrared James Webb Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a ground-based radio telescope. By surveying IC 1954 and over fifty other nearby galaxies in radio, infrared, optical, and ultraviolet light, astronomers aim to fully trace and reconstruct the path matter takes through stars and the interstellar gas and dust in each galaxy. Hubble’s observing capabilities form an important part of this survey: it can capture younger stars and star clusters when they are brightest at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths, and its H-alpha filter effectively tracks emission from nebulae. The resulting dataset will form a treasure trove of research on the evolution of stars in galaxies, which Webb will build upon as it continues its science operations into the future. More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2439a/ Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) Music: Stellardrone - Ascent
Pan: IC 1954
Most galaxies we are familiar with fall into one of two easily-identified types. Spiral galaxies are young and energetic, filled with the gas needed to form new stars and sporting spiral arms hosting hot, bright stars. Elliptical galaxies have a much more pedestrian look, their light coming from a uniform population of older and redder stars. But other galaxies require in-depth study to understand: such is the case with NGC 4694, a galaxy located 54 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo galaxy cluster, and the subject of this Hubble Picture of the Week. NGC 4694 has a smooth-looking, armless disc which — like an elliptical galaxy — is nearly devoid of star formation. However its stellar population is still relatively young and new stars are still actively forming in its core, powering the brightness we can see in this image and giving it a markedly different stellar profile from that of a classic elliptical galaxy. The galaxy is also suffused by the kinds of gas and dust normally seen in a young and sprightly spiral; elliptical galaxies often do host significant quantities of dust, but not the gas needed to form new stars. NGC 4694 is surrounded by a huge cloud of invisible hydrogen gas, fuel for star formation. This stellar activity is the reason for Hubble’s observations here. As this Hubble image shows, the dust in this galaxy forms chaotic structures that indicate some kind of disturbance. It turns out that the cloud of hydrogen gas around NGC 4694 forms a long bridge to a nearby, faint dwarf galaxy named VCC 2062. The two galaxies have undergone a violent collision, and the larger NGC 4694 is accreting gas from the smaller galaxy. Based on its peculiar shape and its star-forming activity, NGC 4694 has been classified as a lenticular galaxy: lacking the unmistakable arms of a spiral, but not so bereft of gas as an elliptical galaxy, and still with a galactic bulge and disc. Some galaxies just aren’t so easy to classify as one type or the other! More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2440a/ Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) Music: Stellardrone - Endeavour
Pan: NGC 4694
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Time-lapse of Jupiter (December 2023 to March 2024)
This animated diagram shows the position of Earth relative to Jupiter during a period spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter was approximately 630 million to 820 million kilometres from the Sun. During this period the Hubble Space telescope monitored changes in Jupiter’s atmosphere as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program (OPAL). Jupiter’s orbital period is approximately 12 years. The angular size of the planet shrinks in Hubble’s view, as faster-moving Earth pulls ahead of the giant planet. More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2412b/ Credit: NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI)
Jupiter over time (December 2023 to March 2024)
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