{"id":245421,"date":"2026-10-15T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/software-advance-brings-complex-quantum-simulations-to-standard-computers"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:47:08","slug":"software-advance-brings-complex-quantum-simulations-to-standard-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/software-advance-brings-complex-quantum-simulations-to-standard-computers","title":{"rendered":"Software advance brings complex quantum simulations to standard computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/software-advance-brings-complex-quantum-simulations-to-standard-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major software advance could aid the creation of bigger, more reliable quantum computers, a study suggests. Researchers have developed an algorithm that enables off-the-shelf computers to run quantum simulations previously only possible using the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>It means the simulations can be run using around 5% of the computing power previously needed to perform them with a supercomputer, the team says.<\/p>\n<p>The advance could make it cheaper and easier to run experiments vital for understanding the limitations of current quantum computers and informing the design of improved devices, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major software advance could aid the creation of bigger, more reliable quantum computers, a study suggests. Researchers have developed an algorithm that enables off-the-shelf computers to run quantum simulations previously only possible using the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers. It means the simulations can be run using around 5% of the computing power previously needed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,41,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245421","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=245421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}