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Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop


By applying a 1980s algorithm to mathematical structures known as tensor networks, Flatiron Institute researchers showed that classical computers can solve a class of problems once claimed to require quantum computers.

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