Antoine Browaeys

Atoms were arranged in a honeycomb pattern, their interactions tuned, turning a magnetic crystal into a flowing, boiling broth. In this chaos, hidden order emerged: excitations race like light. Such a 'spin liquid' could become the foundation for future quantum computers.

A 256-atom simulator reproduced the properties of the frustrated magnet TmMgGaO₄ and showed that its behavior is governed by quantum jitters, not crystal defects. After a sudden jolt, the virtual material reached equilibrium in trillionths of a second—a process that ordinary computers cannot calcula