{"id":81973,"date":"2018-08-22T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/d-wave-demonstrates-first-large-scale-quantum-simulation-of-topological-state-of-matter"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:02:37","slug":"d-wave-demonstrates-first-large-scale-quantum-simulation-of-topological-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/d-wave-demonstrates-first-large-scale-quantum-simulation-of-topological-state-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"D-Wave demonstrates first large-scale quantum simulation of topological state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/d-wave-demonstrates-first-large-scale-quantum-simulation-of-topological-state-of-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>D-Wave Systems today published a milestone study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive physical research and development.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, entitled \u201cObservation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits\u201d, was published in the peer-reviewed journal <i>Nature<\/i>. This work marks an important advancement in the field and demonstrates again that the fully programmable D-Wave quantum computer can be used as an accurate simulator of quantum systems at a large scale. The methods used in this work could have broad implications in the development of novel materials, realizing Richard Feynman\u2019s original vision of a quantum simulator. This new research comes on the heels of D-Wave\u2019s recent <i>Science <\/i>paper demonstrating a different type of phase transition in a quantum spin-glass simulation. The two papers together signify the flexibility and versatility of the D-Wave quantum computer in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+simulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum simulation<\/a> of materials, in addition to other tasks such as optimization and machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1970s, theoretical physicists Vadim Berezinskii, J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless predicted a new state of matter characterized by nontrivial topological properties. The work was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016. D-Wave researchers demonstrated this phenomenon by programming the D-Wave 2000Q system to form a two-dimensional frustrated lattice of artificial spins. The observed topological properties in the simulated system cannot exist without quantum effects and closely agree with theoretical predictions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-d-wave-large-scale-quantum-simulation-topological.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-d-wave-large-scale-quantum...gical.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-Wave Systems today published a milestone study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive physical research and development. The paper, entitled \u201cObservation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits\u201d, was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81973","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}