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Anti-qubit: Reverse Time for a Quantum Sensor ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Superconducting antiqubits achieve optimal phase estimation via unitary inversion"
arXiv:2506.04315v1 · 2025-06-04 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics Mesoscale HEP Experiment Atomic Physics
Physicists turned a qubit back in time, creating its antipode — an ultrasensitive magnetic field detector.
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Engineers have built an 'anti-qubit' — a superconducting qubit that behaves like an electron moving backward in time. By linking it with a regular qubit, they obtained a detector capable of sensing an unknown field with ideal precision. In the future, this will lead to ultra-sensitive quantum navigators and medical sensors.

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Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterAlbert Einstein
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Standard Model speed of light entropy
Laws
second law of thermodynamicsDoppler effectprinciple of constancy of the speed of lightNoether's theoremBekenstein-Hawking entropymass–energy equivalence
Original: arXiv:2506.04315v1 · CC BY · bridge42worlds