{"id":219117,"date":"2025-07-31T04:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-new-open-source-program-for-quantum-physics-helps-researchers-obtain-results-in-record-time"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:24:41","slug":"a-new-open-source-program-for-quantum-physics-helps-researchers-obtain-results-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-new-open-source-program-for-quantum-physics-helps-researchers-obtain-results-in-record-time","title":{"rendered":"A new open-source program for quantum physics helps researchers obtain results in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-open-source-program-for-quantum-physics-helps-researchers-obtain-results-in-record-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) and the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) at Paderborn University have developed a powerful open-source software tool that allows them to simulate light behavior in quantum systems.<\/p>\n<p>The unique feature of this tool, named \u201cPhoenix,\u201d is that researchers can use it to very quickly investigate complex effects to a level of detail that was previously unknown, and all without needing knowledge of high-performance computing. The results have now been <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0010465525001912\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Computer Physics Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix solves equations that describe how light interacts with material at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum level<\/a>, which is essential for understanding and for the design of future technologies such as quantum computers and advanced photonic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) and the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) at Paderborn University have developed a powerful open-source software tool that allows them to simulate light behavior in quantum systems. The unique feature of this tool, named \u201cPhoenix,\u201d is that researchers can use it to very quickly investigate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219117","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=219117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}