{"id":217028,"date":"2025-07-02T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/quantum-computer-simulates-spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-at-zero-temperature"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:04:43","slug":"quantum-computer-simulates-spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-at-zero-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/quantum-computer-simulates-spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-at-zero-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computer simulates spontaneous symmetry breaking at zero temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computer-simulates-spontaneous-symmetry-breaking-at-zero-temperature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement, which was accomplished with over 80% fidelity, represents a milestone for quantum computing and condensed matter physics.<\/p>\n<p>The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57812-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The system began in a classical antiferromagnetic state, in which particles have spins that alternate between one direction and the opposite direction. It then evolved into a ferromagnetic quantum state, in which all particles have spins that point in the same direction and establish quantum correlations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement, which was accomplished with over 80% fidelity, represents a milestone for quantum computing and condensed matter physics. The results are published in the journal Nature Communications. The system began [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217028","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\/217028","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}