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A new study has shown that arranging two time crystals in a coordinated way can create a quantum device similar to a battery.
A recent study in arXiv suggests that the use of a pair of coupled time crystals – working like a quantum battery – for store energy efficiently.
Unlike ordinary quantum states, they exhibit temporal periodicity, repeatedly passing through the same configurations without energy input.
Although scientists initially feared that this process would violate fundamental physical laws, the new study proves its feasibility.
The research team explored the difficulty of studying the thermodynamics of these crystals, since never reach thermal equilibrium. This feature has been found to be advantageous when two time crystals interact.
In the model studied here, two time crystals, energized by lasers, can simultaneously transform into time crystals, or allow one active crystal to induce crystallization in the other.
The analysis, detailed by , showed that energy storage is more efficient when the two crystals oscillate together.
This efficiency increases even further when one crystal “seeds” the transformation of the other, revealing a superior energy storage capacity for prolonged periods.
The results presented can be verified using existing time crystals, made up of extremely cold atoms.
In the future, it is even intended to generate energy through a “time crystal engine”, which would require a more complex method of connecting the crystals, as indicated by
Federico Carollofrom the University of Coventry, in England and who was part of the research team, is confident that, in the future, it can even be generate energy through a “time crystal engine”which would, in turn, require a more complex method of connecting the crystals.
At New Scientist, John Goolddo Trinity College Dublin, e Michal Hajdušekfrom Keio University, in Japan, emphasize that the coupling of temporal crystals is viable and brings new knowledge about the thermodynamics of non-equilibrium systems.
Those experts in the field say that this study paves the way for innovations in energy storage and generation in quantum systems.
