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Bangalore Scientists Discover New State Of Materials Useful To Create Controllable Quantum Technologies
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Scientists have discovered a new exotic, strange state of materials in contact with an environment that alters its physical properties in the presence of an electromagnetic field, leading to better quantum technologies, which are tunable and controllable as per the user requirements.
Dibyendu Roy, Associate Professor, and his group from Raman Research Institute (RRI) Bangalore, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, have been exploring systems in contact with the environment or the open quantum systems and their physical properties for a while.
They explored ways to control the topological phase transitions of matter in contact with an environment by an external periodic perturbation such as laser light in their present work.
Topology is concerned with the properties of a geometric object preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching and twisting.
Understanding various phases and phase transitions is of central importance in the study of matter. Generally, phase transitions are studied by assuming that the system is isolated, with little or negligible environmental interactions.
They have shown that, in an external electromagnetic field, geometric properties of a crystalline solid with lattices arranged in a one-dimensional periodic manner can display phase transitions, thereby altering its physical properties.
This work funded by the Department of Science and Technology, India, via the Ramanujan Fellowship, and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), India, under a grant for "Centre for Excellence in Quantum Technologies" has been published in the journal 'Physical Review B'.
In our everyday lives, several devices and technologies exploit some of the other aspects of quantum physics, like LEDs, semiconductor technology, and nanomaterials. Usually, the environmental interactions in such quantum systems are either neglected or are considered very small.
Through this work, the RRI team has shown that if such effects are carefully taken into account, one can drastically alter the quantum system's physical behavior and lead to better quantum technologies.
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