{"id":214360,"date":"2025-05-20T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-used-a-one-atom-quantum-computer-to-simulate-real-molecules-over-time"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:04:03","slug":"researchers-used-a-one-atom-quantum-computer-to-simulate-real-molecules-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-used-a-one-atom-quantum-computer-to-simulate-real-molecules-over-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Used a One-Atom Quantum Computer to Simulate Real Molecules Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-used-a-one-atom-quantum-computer-to-simulate-real-molecules-over-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also simulated \u201copen-system\u201d dynamics, where the molecule interacts with its environment. This is typically a much harder problem for classical computers.<\/p>\n<p>By injecting controlled noise into the ion\u2019s environment, we replicated how real molecules lose energy. This showed environmental complexity can also be captured by quantum simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We also simulated \u201copen-system\u201d dynamics, where the molecule interacts with its environment. This is typically a much harder problem for classical computers. By injecting controlled noise into the ion\u2019s environment, we replicated how real molecules lose energy. This showed environmental complexity can also be captured by quantum simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214360","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}