{"id":206153,"date":"2025-02-11T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-computers-successfully-model-particle-scattering"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:10:33","slug":"quantum-computers-successfully-model-particle-scattering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-computers-successfully-model-particle-scattering","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computers successfully model particle scattering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-successfully-model-particle-scattering2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the nuclei of atoms collide to power the stars and create heavy elements, and even sound waves deviate from their original trajectory when they hit particles in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding such scattering can lead to discoveries about the forces that govern the universe. In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevC.110.054604\" target=\"_blank\">publication<\/a> in <i>Physical Review C<\/i>, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the InQubator for Quantum Simulations and the University of Trento developed an algorithm for a quantum computer that accurately simulates scattering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScattering experiments help us probe <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fundamental+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental particles<\/a> and their interactions,\u201d said LLNL scientist Sofia Quaglioni. \u201cThe scattering of particles in matter [materials, atoms, molecules, nuclei] helps us understand how that matter is organized at a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microscopic+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscopic level<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the nuclei of atoms collide to power the stars and create heavy elements, and even sound waves deviate from their original trajectory when they hit particles in the air. Understanding such scattering can lead to discoveries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206153","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}