{"id":214469,"date":"2025-05-22T05:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-simulate-tens-of-thousands-of-electrons-in-real-time"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:08:14","slug":"researchers-simulate-tens-of-thousands-of-electrons-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-simulate-tens-of-thousands-of-electrons-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers simulate tens of thousands of electrons in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-simulate-tens-of-thousands-of-electrons-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team from the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, has developed a simulation capable of predicting how tens of thousands of electrons move in materials in real time, or natural time rather than compute time.<\/p>\n<p>The project reflects a longstanding partnership between ORNL and NCSU, combining ORNL\u2019s expertise in time-dependent quantum methods with NCSU\u2019s advanced quantum simulation platform developed under the leadership of Professor Jerry Bernholc.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility\u2019s Frontier supercomputer, the world\u2019s first to break the exascale barrier, the research team developed a real-time, time-dependent density functional theory, or RT-TDDFT, capability within the open-source Real-space Multigrid, or RMG, code to model systems of up to 24,000 electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team from the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, has developed a simulation capable of predicting how tens of thousands of electrons move in materials in real time, or natural time rather than compute time. The project reflects a longstanding partnership between ORNL and NCSU, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214469","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=214469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}