{"id":229615,"date":"2026-01-23T01:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-leading-use-for-quantum-computers-might-not-need-them-after-all"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:04:19","slug":"a-leading-use-for-quantum-computers-might-not-need-them-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-leading-use-for-quantum-computers-might-not-need-them-after-all","title":{"rendered":"A leading use for quantum computers might not need them after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-leading-use-for-quantum-computers-might-not-need-them-after-all.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding a molecule that plays a key role in nitrogen fixing \u2013 a chemical process that enables life on Earth \u2013 has long been thought of as problem for quantum computers, but now a classical computer may have solved it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding a molecule that plays a key role in nitrogen fixing \u2013 a chemical process that enables life on Earth \u2013 has long been thought of as problem for quantum computers, but now a classical computer may have solved it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229615","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}