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Physicists at Rice and TU Wien (Vienna Technical University) shared results of neutron scattering experiments and quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the strange metal Ce₃Pd₂₀Si₆. Strange metals, or quantum critical metals, have electrons that are particularly highly entangled and are known as potential high-temperature superconductors.

Their studies characterized the strange metal’s quantum entanglement state and showed that spin quantum Fisher information was at its highest at the quantum critical point, when the material changes between phases.

This research was published in Nature Physics. The Rice team, led by Qimiao Si, published theoretical work on the topic last year in Nature Communications.

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University of Washington engineers achieved a ν = 1/3 fermionic Laughlin state on an IonQ trapped-atom quantum system using 369 two-qubit gates on a 16-qubit circuit. They were able to characterize correlation hole, bulk-edge correspondence, and topological entanglement entropy, closely agreeing with existing benchmarks. The work marks the first time a fermionic Laughlin state has been achieved on a quantum processor, according to the team.

This work was published in Nature Communications.

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