{"id":237575,"date":"2026-05-22T03:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/quantum-supremacy-just-ran-into-an-unexpected-rival-an-ordinary-laptop-armed-with-new-math"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:20:01","slug":"quantum-supremacy-just-ran-into-an-unexpected-rival-an-ordinary-laptop-armed-with-new-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/quantum-supremacy-just-ran-into-an-unexpected-rival-an-ordinary-laptop-armed-with-new-math","title":{"rendered":"Quantum supremacy just ran into an unexpected rival: An ordinary laptop armed with new math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-supremacy-just-ran-into-an-unexpected-rival-an-ordinary-laptop-armed-with-new-math2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation\u2019s Flatiron Institute and collaborators at Boston University have cracked a daunting quantum physics problem previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is so groundbreaking in its efficiency that the researchers were even able to use a personal laptop to solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>By enabling scientists to squeeze extra problem-solving power from classical computers, the breakthrough methodology is opening new avenues for research on quantum dynamics and may be useful as a protocol for solving problems about finding the optimal solution amid an abundance of feasible ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation\u2019s Flatiron Institute and collaborators at Boston University have cracked a daunting quantum physics problem previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers. The technique is so groundbreaking in its efficiency that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237575","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=237575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}