Archive: https://archive.today/Wo4E0 From the post: >>Hello Everyone, My name is Dr. Aaron Breidenbach. For those who haven’t been following my journey, I grew crystals of Zn-Barlowite and Herbertsmithite in my PhD at Stanford. These crystals are candidates to be a new novel state of matter called a “quantum spin liquid” (QSL). I just published a paper in nature physics (free version here) with Young Lee’s Lab, providing the strongest evidence to date for the presence of this mythical magnetic state in these crystals. Due to these properties, Zn-Barlowite and its sister QSL candidate material Herbertsmithite have immense potential to be used in future large scale quantum computers. Given what LLMs are currently doing on silicon, one can only imagine how society-altering these crystals might be one day if we can actually fashion them productively in a quantum computer.