{"id":148352,"date":"2022-10-17T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-augment-reality-to-crack-the-code-of-quantum-systems"},"modified":"2022-10-17T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:22:36","slug":"scientists-augment-reality-to-crack-the-code-of-quantum-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-augment-reality-to-crack-the-code-of-quantum-systems","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Augment Reality To Crack the Code of Quantum Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-augment-reality-to-crack-the-code-of-quantum-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality in order to crack the code of quantum systems.<\/p>\n<p>Calculating the collective behavior of a molecule\u2019s electrons is necessary to predict a material\u2019s properties. Such predictions could one day help scientists create novel drugs or create materials with desirable qualities like superconductivity. The issue is that electrons may become \u2018quantum mechanically\u2019 entangled with one another, which means they can no longer be treated individually. For any system with more than a few particles, the entangled network of connections becomes outrageously difficult for even the most powerful computers to unravel directly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, quantum physicists from the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/epfl\/>\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL)<\/a> in Switzerland and the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) in New York City have found a workaround. By adding extra \u201cghost\u201d electrons in their computations that interact with the system\u2019s actual electrons, they were able to simulate entanglement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality in order to crack the code of quantum systems. Calculating the collective behavior of a molecule\u2019s electrons is necessary to predict a material\u2019s properties. Such predictions could one day help scientists create novel drugs or create materials with desirable qualities like superconductivity. The issue is that electrons may become \u2018quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}