{"id":244443,"date":"2026-09-24T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-tackle-a-classic-quantum-problem-with-a-powerful-new-computational-method"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:20:48","slug":"physicists-tackle-a-classic-quantum-problem-with-a-powerful-new-computational-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-tackle-a-classic-quantum-problem-with-a-powerful-new-computational-method","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Tackle a Classic Quantum Problem With a Powerful New Computational Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-tackle-a-classic-quantum-problem-with-a-powerful-new-computational-method2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new computational approach uses the real electronic structure of materials to predict a classic quantum effect far more accurately than simplified models.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven magnetic atoms embedded one at a time in copper have given physicists a new way to test whether computers can predict the behavior of real quantum materials without first reducing them to simplified models.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the seven transition-metal impurities, calculations developed by researchers at Caltech and Yale University improved on the accuracy of conventional model-based predictions by as much as two orders of magnitude. The test involved the Kondo effect, a classic quantum problem whose general physics has been understood for decades even though its precise behavior in specific materials has remained difficult to calculate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new computational approach uses the real electronic structure of materials to predict a classic quantum effect far more accurately than simplified models. Seven magnetic atoms embedded one at a time in copper have given physicists a new way to test whether computers can predict the behavior of real quantum materials without first reducing them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244443","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=244443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}