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简介Causality is key to our experience of reality: dropping a glass, for example, causes it to smash, so...
Causality is key to our experience of reality: dropping a glass, for example, causes it to smash, so it can’t smash before it’s dropped. But in the quantum world those rules don’t necessarily apply, and scientists have now demonstrated how that weirdness can be harnessed to charge a quantum battery.
In a sense, you could say that quantum batteries are powered by paradoxes. On paper, they work by storing energy in the quantum states of atoms and molecules – but of course, as soon as the word “quantum” enters the conversation you know weird stuff is about to happen. In this case, a new study has found that quantum batteries could work by violating cause-and-effect as we know it.
“Current batteries for low-power devices, such as smartphones or sensors, typically use chemicals such as lithium to store charge, whereas a quantum battery uses microscopic particles like arrays of atoms,” said Yuanbo Chen, an author of the study. “While chemical batteries are governed by classical laws of physics, microscopic particles are quantum in nature, so we have a chance to explore ways of using them that bend or even break our intuitive notions of what takes place at small scales. I’m particularly interested in the way quantum particles can work to violate one of our most fundamental experiences, that of time.”
In classical physics – the kind we experience in the large-scale world – causality is clearly linear. To return to the earlier analogy, dropping a glass (Event A) causes it to smash (Event B), but you can’t reverse the relationship between those two events. The glass didn’t fall because it was smashed. But in the spooky realm of quantum physics, this limitation doesn’t have to apply. And baking that paradox into a quantum battery could help make them more efficient.
In the new study, scientists at the University of Tokyo conducted a lab experiment using lasers, lenses and mirrors that act as a large-scale quantum battery. Charging these batteries would usually require multiple charging stages that work one after another, but here the team took advantage of a quantum effect called indefinite causal order (ICO). Basically, once they bring the system into a quantum superposition, the causal order can exist in both directions at the same time, allowing the multiple charging steps to work together rather than sequentially.
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