{"id":214171,"date":"2025-05-17T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/quantum-computers-just-outsmarted-supercomputers-heres-what-they-solved"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:17:04","slug":"quantum-computers-just-outsmarted-supercomputers-heres-what-they-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/quantum-computers-just-outsmarted-supercomputers-heres-what-they-solved","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computers Just Outsmarted Supercomputers \u2014 Here\u2019s What They Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-just-outsmarted-supercomputers-heres-what-they-solved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum annealing is a specific type of quantum computing that can use quantum physics principles to find high-quality solutions to difficult optimization problems. Rather than requiring exact optimal solutions, the study focused on finding solutions within a certain percentage (\u22651%) of the optimal value.<\/p>\n<p>Many real-world problems don\u2019t require exact solutions, making this approach practically relevant. For example, in determining which stocks to put into a mutual fund, it is often good enough to just beat a leading market index rather than beating every other stock portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum annealing is a specific type of quantum computing that can use quantum physics principles to find high-quality solutions to difficult optimization problems. Rather than requiring exact optimal solutions, the study focused on finding solutions within a certain percentage (\u22651%) of the optimal value. Many real-world problems don\u2019t require exact solutions, making this approach practically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214171","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}