Researchers Detect A Sphere of 'Superfluid' Helium That Acts As Black Hole

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As per the recent discovery by the scientists, cold helium atoms (in green) while interacting with the like helium atoms (in blue) behave in a peculiar way as per a law of physics known as the entanglement area law that is surprisingly similar to the black holes.

 According to a Physicist named Adrian Del Maestro from the University of Vermont, this particular behavior of the helium atoms is focusing upon a 'deeper reality' that might pave the path of usage of the super-fluid helium atoms as fuels for making the advanced level of ultra-fast quantum computers. The entanglement area law as illustrated by scientist Adrian Del Maestro, who had also co-head the research, is sufficiently present in the outer space as well as in the atomic level. This study came up in the form of a recent publication in the Nature Physics journal on 13^th March. The research results have aroused hopes of exploring the domain of quantum theory of gravity that may be used to proceed with quantum computing as well, reported Space Daily.

According to the discovery of 1970 by Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein, "when matter falls into one of these bottomless holes in space, the amount of information in it gobbles up -- what scientists call its entropy -- increases only as fast as its surface area increases, not its volume." Quite a same type of behavior has been observed in the case of the super-fluid helium atoms that revolve around quantum information, revealed Science Daily.

This discovery was the outcome of the artificially stimulated interactions of sixty-four helium atoms in a superfluid with the help of two supercomputers. The concept of 'locality' in physics was demonstrated through this particular experiment and this is just the beginning of a fresh genre of study because, in order to tap the mammoth information processing potential of the helium atoms in superfluid, extensive studies of its working in detail are required that may in the future open up the doors to quantum theory of gravity and quantum computing.