Quantum Scrambling: Substance Responses Matching Dark(black hole) Openings

With ramifications for molecular physics and quantum computing, research from Rice University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has demonstrated that molecules may jumble quantum information just as well as black holes.

A message in a bottle would contain all of the information, down to the quantum level, that would be totally jumbled if it were thrown into a black hole. Black holes are regarded as nature’s ultimate information scramblers since this scrambling occurs there as swiftly and fully as quantum theory permits.

However, a new study by theorist Peter Wolynes of Rice University and coworkers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has demonstrated that molecules may be just as effective as black holes at jumbling up quantum information. They have demonstrated that quantum information scrambling occurs in chemical processes and can almost approach the same quantum mechanical limit as it does in black holes by combining mathematical techniques from chemical physics and black hole physics. The piece is released.

How quickly quantum information is jumbled in molecules is a long-standing mystery in molecular physics that this work attempts to solve, according to Wolynes. People often assume that there is just one…