{"id":214331,"date":"2025-05-20T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/australian-researchers-use-a-quantum-computer-to-simulate-how-real-molecules-behave"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:14:53","slug":"australian-researchers-use-a-quantum-computer-to-simulate-how-real-molecules-behave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/australian-researchers-use-a-quantum-computer-to-simulate-how-real-molecules-behave","title":{"rendered":"Australian researchers use a quantum computer to simulate how real molecules behave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-researchers-use-a-quantum-computer-to-simulate-how-real-molecules-behave.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a molecule absorbs light, it undergoes a whirlwind of quantum-mechanical transformations. Electrons jump between energy levels, atoms vibrate, and chemical bonds shift\u2014all within millionths of a billionth of a second.<\/p>\n<p>These processes underpin everything from photosynthesis in plants and DNA damage from sunlight, to the operation of solar cells and light-powered cancer therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite their importance, chemical processes driven by light are difficult to simulate accurately. Traditional computers struggle, because it takes vast computational power to simulate this quantum behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a molecule absorbs light, it undergoes a whirlwind of quantum-mechanical transformations. Electrons jump between energy levels, atoms vibrate, and chemical bonds shift\u2014all within millionths of a billionth of a second. These processes underpin everything from photosynthesis in plants and DNA damage from sunlight, to the operation of solar cells and light-powered cancer therapies. Yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,1617,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214331","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=214331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}