{"id":232662,"date":"2026-03-06T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/researchers-create-a-never-before-seen-molecule-and-prove-its-exotic-nature-with-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:27:10","slug":"researchers-create-a-never-before-seen-molecule-and-prove-its-exotic-nature-with-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/researchers-create-a-never-before-seen-molecule-and-prove-its-exotic-nature-with-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-a-never-before-seen-molecule-and-prove-its-exotic-nature-with-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any previously known\u2014one whose electrons travel through its structure in a corkscrew-like pattern that fundamentally alters its chemical behavior. The work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aea3321\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Science.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first experimental observation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-05-mbius-solely-carbon-atoms.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">half-M\u00f6bius<\/a> electronic topology in a single molecule. To the scientists\u2019 knowledge, a molecule with such topology has never before been synthesized, observed, or even formally predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding this molecule\u2019s behavior at the electronic structure level required something equally fundamental: a high-fidelity quantum computing simulation. The discovery advances science on two fronts. For chemistry, it demonstrates that electronic topology\u2014the property governing how electrons move through a molecule\u2014can be deliberately engineered, not merely found in nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any previously known\u2014one whose electrons travel through its structure in a corkscrew-like pattern that fundamentally alters its chemical behavior. The work appears in Science. This is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232662","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\/232662","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=232662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}