{"id":224345,"date":"2025-10-31T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-problem-that-takes-quantum-computers-an-unfathomable-amount-of-time-to-solve"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:08:55","slug":"a-problem-that-takes-quantum-computers-an-unfathomable-amount-of-time-to-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-problem-that-takes-quantum-computers-an-unfathomable-amount-of-time-to-solve","title":{"rendered":"A problem that takes quantum computers an unfathomable amount of time to solve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-problem-that-takes-quantum-computers-an-unfathomable-amount-of-time-to-solve3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a well-known fact that quantum calculations are difficult, but one would think that quantum computers would facilitate the process. In most cases, this is true.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum bits, or qubits, use <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+phenomena\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum phenomena<\/a>, like superposition and entanglement, to process many possibilities simultaneously. This allows for exponentially faster computing for complex problems. However, Thomas Schuster, of California Institute of Technology, and his research team have given quantum computers a problem that even they can\u2019t solve in a reasonable amount of time\u2014recognizing phases of matter of unknown quantum states.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research can be found in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.08503\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a well-known fact that quantum calculations are difficult, but one would think that quantum computers would facilitate the process. In most cases, this is true. Quantum bits, or qubits, use quantum phenomena, like superposition and entanglement, to process many possibilities simultaneously. This allows for exponentially faster computing for complex problems. However, Thomas Schuster, of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224345","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=224345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}