{"id":3923721,"date":"2026-01-29T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/2d-discrete-time-crystals-realized-on-a-quantum-computer-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:03:18","slug":"2d-discrete-time-crystals-realized-on-a-quantum-computer-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/2d-discrete-time-crystals-realized-on-a-quantum-computer-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"2D discrete time crystals realized on a quantum computer for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Physical systems become inherently more complicated and difficult to produce in a lab as the number of dimensions they exist in increases\u2014even more so in quantum systems. While discrete time crystals (DTCs) had been previously demonstrated in one dimension, two-dimensional DTCs were known to exist only theoretically. But now, a new study, published in Nature Communications, has demonstrated the existence of a DTC in a two-dimensional system using a 144-qubit quantum processor.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-2d-discrete-crystals-quantum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical systems become inherently more complicated and difficult to produce in a lab as the number of dimensions they exist in increases\u2014even more so in quantum systems. While discrete time crystals (DTCs) had been previously demonstrated in one dimension, two-dimensional DTCs were known to exist only theoretically. But now, a new study, published in Nature [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}