{"id":210061,"date":"2025-03-30T05:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/breakthrough-in-quantum-magnetism-simulation-marks-turning-point-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:03:28","slug":"breakthrough-in-quantum-magnetism-simulation-marks-turning-point-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/breakthrough-in-quantum-magnetism-simulation-marks-turning-point-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in Quantum Magnetism Simulation Marks Turning Point for Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-quantum-magnetism-simulation-marks-turning-point-for-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.20870\">new study<\/a> published by researchers at quantum computing company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantinuum.com\/\">Quantinuum<\/a> and collaborators from <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/strange-spheres-spotted-on-mars-baffle-nasa-scientists-point-to-red-planets-mysterious-past\/\">Caltech<\/a>, Fermioniq, EPFL, and the Technical University of Munich, scientists have used Quantinuum\u2019s powerful quantum computer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantinuum.com\/blog\/being-useful-now-quantum-computers-and-scientific-discovery\">H2,<\/a> to simulate a notoriously difficult system\u2014quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/b96825\">magnetism <\/a>\u2014in a way that pushes beyond what classical computers can reliably achieve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigital quantum computers are much more flexible\/universal, but we have paid for that flexibility with many technical challenges,\u201d Dr. Michael Foss-Feig of Quantinuum and the paper\u2019s lead author told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/our-new-podcast-the-debrief-weekly-report-covers-todays-news-and-the-science-of-tomorrow\/\">the Debrief<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis paper is an indication that we are finally moving these more flexible\/universal machines into the realm of practical (and scientifically illuminating) quantum simulation,\u201d Foss-Feig said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published by researchers at quantum computing company Quantinuum and collaborators from Caltech, Fermioniq, EPFL, and the Technical University of Munich, scientists have used Quantinuum\u2019s powerful quantum computer, H2, to simulate a notoriously difficult system\u2014quantum magnetism \u2014in a way that pushes beyond what classical computers can reliably achieve. \u201cDigital quantum computers are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210061","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\/210061","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}