{"id":239978,"date":"2026-06-30T07:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/physicists-solve-a-quantum-only-problem-using-an-ordinary-laptop"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:16:41","slug":"physicists-solve-a-quantum-only-problem-using-an-ordinary-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/physicists-solve-a-quantum-only-problem-using-an-ordinary-laptop","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Solve a \u201cQuantum-Only\u201d Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-solve-a-quantum-only-problem-using-an-ordinary-laptop2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A problem once touted as requiring a quantum computer has now been solved on a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Using advanced mathematical techniques and sophisticated software, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation\u2019s Flatiron Institute and collaborators at Boston University showed that a conventional computer can successfully simulate a notoriously difficult quantum system previously claimed to be beyond the reach of classical computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A problem once touted as requiring a quantum computer has now been solved on a laptop. Using advanced mathematical techniques and sophisticated software, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation\u2019s Flatiron Institute and collaborators at Boston University showed that a conventional computer can successfully simulate a notoriously difficult quantum [\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-239978","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\/239978","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=239978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}