An AI Just Solved a Quantum Problem on an Ordinary Laptop That Was Supposed to Need a Quantum Computer

Physicists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, working with collaborators at Boston University, solved a quantum physics problem long described as impossible for classical machines using a conventional laptop. They used tensor networks to compress the wave function of hundreds of entangled qubits, and the laptop results matched theoretical predictions […]