Physicists have used a quantum computer to simulate the first-ever holographic wormhole and transport information through it.
The “baby” wormhole, created on Google’s Sycamore 2 quantum computer was not created with gravity, but through quantum entanglement — the linking of two particles such that measuring one instantaneously affects the other. By entangling qubits, or quantum bits, in minuscule superconducting circuits physicists were able to create a portal through which information was sent. The experiment has the potential to further the hypothesis that our universe is a hologram stitched together by quantum information. The researchers published their findings Nov. 30 in the journal Nature (opens in new tab).
“This is a baby step for interrogating quantum gravity in the lab,” lead author Maria Spiropulu (opens in new tab), a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, said at a Nov. 30 news conference. “When we saw the data, I had a panic attack. We were jumping up and down. But I’m trying to keep it grounded.”
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