Good news! Amazing stuff!
"For the first time, a quantum computer has successfully measured pairing correlations (quantum signals that show electrons teaming up in pairs), which is essential to helping scientists find one of the holy grails of physics—superconductors that work at room temperature. ..."
"... In our work, we've simulated three different regimes of the Fermi-Hubbard model and successfully measured non-zero superconducting pairing correlations — a first for any quantum computing platform.
We began by preparing a low-energy state of the model at half-filling — a standard benchmark for testing quantum simulations. Then, using simulated laser pulses or electric fields, we perturbed the system and observed how it responded.
After these perturbations, we measured a notable increase in the so-called “eta” pairing correlations, a mathematical signature of superconducting behavior. These results prove that our computers can help us understand light-induced superconductivity ... Helios offers a new level of control and insight. By tuning every aspect of the simulation — from pulse shape, to field strength, to lattice geometry — researchers can explore scenarios that are completely inaccessible to real materials or analog simulators. ..."
From the abstract:
"The Fermi-Hubbard model is the starting point for the simulation of many strongly correlated materials, including high-temperature superconductors, whose modelling is a key motivation for the construction of quantum simulation and computing devices.
However, the detection of superconducting pairing correlations has so far remained out of reach, both because of their off-diagonal character-which makes them inaccessible to local density measurements-and because of the difficulty of preparing superconducting states.
Here, we report measurement of significant pairing correlations in three different regimes of Fermi-Hubbard models simulated on Quantinuumś Helios trapped-ion quantum computer. Specifically, we measure non-equilibrium pairing induced by an electromagnetic field in the half-filled square lattice model, d-wave pairing in an approximate ground state of the checkerboard Hubbard model at."
Helios Delivers Quantum Advantage with Real-World Impact (original news release) "A breakthrough in room-temperature superconductivity simulation opens doors to transformative technologies"
Superconducting pairing correlations on a trapped-ion quantum computer (preprint, open access)
Figure 1: A rendering of the Quantinuum Helios system deployed at a customer site.
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