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Quantum supremacy just ran into an unexpected rival: An ordinary laptop armed with new math

  • May 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Quantum supremacy just ran into an unexpected rival: An ordinary laptop armed with new math
Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and collaborators at Boston University have cracked a daunting quantum physics problem previously claimed to be solvable only by quantum computers.

Originally published at Phys.org

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