{"id":211504,"date":"2025-04-15T21:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/physicists-designed-a-quantum-rubiks-cube-and-found-the-best-way-to-solve-it"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:05:02","slug":"physicists-designed-a-quantum-rubiks-cube-and-found-the-best-way-to-solve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/physicists-designed-a-quantum-rubiks-cube-and-found-the-best-way-to-solve-it","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Designed a Quantum Rubik\u2019s Cube And Found The Best Way to Solve It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-designed-a-quantum-rubiks-cube-and-found-the-best-way-to-solve-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal. A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik\u2019s cube, with infinite possible states and some weird new moves available to solve it.<\/p>\n<p>The classic (and classical) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/insanely-fast-rubiks-cube-world-record-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed\">Rubik\u2019s cube<\/a> is what\u2019s known as a permutation puzzle, which requires players to perform certain actions to rearrange one of a number of possible permutations into a \u2018solved\u2019 state.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the infamous cube, that\u2019s around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubiks.com\/solution-guides\">43 quintillion possible<\/a> combinations of small colored blocks being sorted into six, consistently-colored faces through a series of constrained movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal. A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik\u2019s cube, with infinite possible states and some weird new moves available to solve it. The classic (and classical) Rubik\u2019s cube is what\u2019s known as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211504","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}