{"id":235317,"date":"2026-04-16T02:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-inspired-algorithm-solves-268-million-site-quasicrystal-simulation-in-a-heartbeat"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:27:33","slug":"quantum-inspired-algorithm-solves-268-million-site-quasicrystal-simulation-in-a-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-inspired-algorithm-solves-268-million-site-quasicrystal-simulation-in-a-heartbeat","title":{"rendered":"Quantum-inspired algorithm solves 268 million-site quasicrystal simulation in a heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-inspired-algorithm-solves-268-million-site-quasicrystal-simulation-in-a-heartbeat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies like quantum computers are built from quantum materials. These types of materials exhibit quantum properties when exposed to the right conditions. Curiously, engineers can also trigger quantum behavior by manipulating a material\u2019s structure; for example, by stacking layers of graphene on top of each other and twisting them to create a moir\u00e9 pattern, which suddenly turns them into a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>The layers can be arranged in increasingly complex ways all the way to quasicrystals and super-moir\u00e9 materials. The fundamental problem is that scientists must first calculate the properties of potential new materials to predict if they could be useful. Quasicrystals, for example, are so complex they can require processing more than a quadrillion numbers\u2014far beyond the capacity of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at Aalto University\u2019s Department of Applied Physics have shown how a quantum-inspired algorithm makes solving these colossal, non-periodic quantum materials possible in a heartbeat. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/hhdf-xpwg\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> as an Editor\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technologies like quantum computers are built from quantum materials. These types of materials exhibit quantum properties when exposed to the right conditions. Curiously, engineers can also trigger quantum behavior by manipulating a material\u2019s structure; for example, by stacking layers of graphene on top of each other and twisting them to create a moir\u00e9 pattern, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235317","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=235317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}