{"id":33999,"date":"2017-02-01T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-most-complex-problem-in-physics-could-be-solved-by-machines-with-brains"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:52:40","slug":"the-most-complex-problem-in-physics-could-be-solved-by-machines-with-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-most-complex-problem-in-physics-could-be-solved-by-machines-with-brains","title":{"rendered":"The most complex problem in physics could be solved by machines with brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-complex-problem-in-physics-could-be-solved-by-machines-with-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will we finally solve world peace though with AI on QC? Hmmm.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I work in computational quantum condensed-matter physics: the study of matter, materials, and artificial quantum systems. Complex problems are our thing.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in our field are working on hyper-powerful batteries, perfectly efficient power transmission, and ultra-strong materials\u2014all important stuff to making the future a better place. To create these concepts, condensed-matter physics deals with the most complex concept in nature: the quantum wavefunction of a many-particle system. Think of the most complex thing you know, and this blows it out of the water: A computer that models the electron wavefunction of a nanometer-size chunk of dust would require a hard drive containing more magnetic bits than there are atoms in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about how machine learning and artificial intelligence could help our field when Google DeepMind defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the ancient game of Go.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/897033\/applying-machine-learning-to-physics-could-be-the-way-to-build-the-first-quantum-computer\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/897033\/applying-machine-learning-to-physics-c...-computer\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will we finally solve world peace though with AI on QC? Hmmm. I work in computational quantum condensed-matter physics: the study of matter, materials, and artificial quantum systems. Complex problems are our thing. Researchers in our field are working on hyper-powerful batteries, perfectly efficient power transmission, and ultra-strong materials\u2014all important stuff to making the future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58935,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33999\/revisions\/58935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}