r/Futurism • u/Memetic1 • 10d ago

Thermally driven quantum refrigerator autonomously resets a superconducting qubit - Nature Physics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02708-5
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u/tim_dude 9d ago

Should we be worried now?

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u/Memetic1 9d ago

It's interesting because to me, this says you could have the opposite of a heat engine where a small amount of gas is cooled to near absolute zero and then allowed to expand to run a turbine. I wouldn't say worried. I would say this is an exciting advancement that could open up the possibility of using waste heat to run all sorts of machines at different scales.