I had a look quickly at some of the research regarding Rydberg states with "n=500", I had a look at this paper HERE. These states we not produced in a Bose-Einstein Condensate and we produced in higher energetic systems. The study I refer to is interesting because it produced this kind of state in a BEC, which is at the heart of super conductor research. Usually excitations of a BEC involve adding or removing a particle, giving poles of the Green's function, these types of excitations are fairly localised in the BEC. However these Rydberg states in a BEC cause large scale excitations interacting with the majority of the condensate. Any advances in BEC-BCS theory is a good thing, another step closer to producing room temperature super conductors.
Regarding the qubits it is far more complicated than I explained, if i explained in depth the theory it would have taken days and I think I would have lost the attention of some users. It was just to give a feel of how qubit super position is the core principle. Although there are infinite possible vectors of the Bloch-Sphere, the qubit does not fully take advantage of this, but uses multiple superposition states instead of the on/off of a binary bit.
Uhhh... Now I see I might have confused people with 0 and 1.... these were state vectors of polarisation, not binary bits, an edit is needed there. Thanks.
Thanks for the comment @lemouth :)
Thanks for clarifying. I indeed missed the BEC part. As I said, this is not my field and a bit far in my memory :D
No problem, I'm glad I could clarify it for you :) In Physics it seems to be the usual case, study something in depth only to forget 90% a month later haha, this goes for me at least.
I am not talking about a month... I am talking of about almost 20 years...
I can't wait to be in a position that I have so much experience behind me. I am sure you are a very good physicist in that case, respect to you :)
Can I ask a question please? At what point in your career did you start to feel like an established useful scientist? I asked Fermi's Grand student (my Prof.) a few months back and his reply was "never" hahah.
The learning phase is never ending. Therefore, never is the right answer.
If one feels like being established, then one would probably stop learning new stuff and then loose connection with the state-of-the-art...
I'm glad you replied with that answer, I feel like i'm just starting to find my feet.
It's important to stay up to date I agree, it's exciting to think about how much we are still yet to learn and achieve.