Project offers new step toward study of emergence, 'materials by design,' and future nanomagnets (IMAGE)

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Project offers new step toward study of emergence, 'materials by design,' and future nanomagnets

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Researchers have used a D-Wave quantum-annealing computer as a testbed to examine the behavior of emergent magnetic monopoles. Shown here, emergent magnetic monopoles traverse a lattice of qubits in a superconducting quantum annealer. Nonzero flux programmed around the boundary creates a trapped monopole in the degenerate ground state.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory and D-Wave Systems

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