{"id":244453,"date":"2026-09-24T01:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/quantum-device-simulates-matter-popping-into-existence"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:23:15","slug":"quantum-device-simulates-matter-popping-into-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/quantum-device-simulates-matter-popping-into-existence","title":{"rendered":"Quantum device simulates matter popping into existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-device-simulates-matter-popping-into-existence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, among the first such observations in quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-026-03422-0\" target=\"_blank\">The approach<\/a>, described in the journal <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, shows that trapped-ion quantum computers can be used to probe fundamental questions about the universe. The experiment emulates string-breaking, a phenomenon in which two connected fundamental building blocks of matter stretch apart, building up enough energy that new particles \u201cpop into existence\u201d when the connection snaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantum computer simulations provide the best platform to investigate complex questions like matter formation, short of having witnessed the Big Bang itself,\u201d said Christopher Monroe, the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke, who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, among the first such observations in quantum physics. The approach, described in the journal Nature Physics, shows that trapped-ion quantum computers can be used to probe fundamental questions about the universe. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244453","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=244453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}