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Physicists May Have Inadvertently Built a Qubit That Can Run Backward in Time


In the classical Universe, the arrow of time flies one way – but in the quantum realm, where classical physics breaks down, could even time's direction be ripe for the tweaking? The ability to manipulate the direction of quantum evolution could offer new ways to process information – with implications especially for quantum computing.

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