![]() Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing Mackillo Kira, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Markus Borsch, PhD student in electrical and computer engineering, work together in Kira’s office going over some of the fundamental light emission properties for semiconductors in the Engineering Research Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, August 17, 2022. “In quantum computing, that’s extremely slow because electrons within a computer chip collide trillions of times a second and each collision terminates the quantum computing cycle. “Your current computer’s processor operates in gigahertz, that’s one billionth of a second per operation,” said Mackillo Kira, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who led the theoretical aspects of the study published in Nature. In addition, the research offers a “game-changing” tool for the study of many-body physics. Seeing electrons move in increments of one quintillionth of a second could help push processing speeds up to a billion times faster than what is currently possible. The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the University of Regensburg captured electron movement in attoseconds-the fastest speed yet. Study: Attosecond clocking of correlations between Bloch electrons (DOI: 10.1038/s41580-2) (available when embargo lifts) Electrons, represented in blue and orange, collide to produce bursts of light that reveal the interactions that govern quantum materials and the quantum information they support. Nobody knows if such form of energy could ever exist in the universe.An artist’s impression of attosecond clocking. Negative mass/energy is still a hypothetical idea. Calculations show that such a system, if ever made, would require a huge amount of negative energy for its operation. ![]() Warp drive technology still has some drawbacks. The ship isn’t really traveling at a speed, instead it is pulling its destination towards itself while pushing its starting point back. ![]() In this manner, the spaceship could travel locally at very low velocities and thus avoid violating any laws. These rings generate a contraction of space ahead and expansion of space behind the spaceship effectively making it travel ‘faster than light’. This can be done with the help of two giant rings that surround the spaceship. The warp drive system creates a warp field around itself. If successful, IXS Enterprise could reach the nearest star Proxima Centauri (4.2 light years away) in just two weeks! You can check the conceptual artwork of IXS Enterprise here. He has even designed a conceptual spacecraft named IXS Enterprise that would use warp drive for interstellar travel. Harold White, a NASA scientist, is currently running the White-Juday warp-field interferometer experiment to check whether such kind of travel is possible. As they say, today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact, warp drive is not just a part of science fiction anymore!ĭr. Warp drive is a hypothetical spacecraft propulsion system that can travel faster than light.Ī warp drive spaceship could travel faster than light without actually violating theory of relativity. You might have heard of ‘warp drive’ in the science fiction series Star Trek. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity forbids ordinary matter from ever reaching the speed of light, as it would require infinite energy.
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