{"id":245287,"date":"2026-10-13T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hybrid-quantum-computers-could-finally-get-to-grips-with-light-and-matter"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:26:19","slug":"hybrid-quantum-computers-could-finally-get-to-grips-with-light-and-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hybrid-quantum-computers-could-finally-get-to-grips-with-light-and-matter","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid quantum computers could finally get to grips with light and matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hybrid-quantum-computers-could-finally-get-to-grips-with-light-and-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of nature\u2019s most important processes depend on how particles of matter interact with light and other force-carrying particles. So far, however, it has proven difficult for conventional computers to determine how individual particles behave in these interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team led by Eleanor Crane at MIT has developed a digital toolkit for simulating these interactions using quantum computing hardware, which could allow such machines to outperform their classical counterparts without the need for extensive error correction.<\/p>\n<p>Their research has been <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/s5bn-z4jq\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of nature\u2019s most important processes depend on how particles of matter interact with light and other force-carrying particles. So far, however, it has proven difficult for conventional computers to determine how individual particles behave in these interactions. Now, a team led by Eleanor Crane at MIT has developed a digital toolkit for simulating these [\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-245287","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\/245287","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=245287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}