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Fujitsu has launched a Quantum Simulator Challenge offering up to $100,000 in prizes and access to its advanced quantum simulation tools for industry and academic teams to solve real-world problems, with applications open until January 30, 2026, and collaboration ongoing through March 2026.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have made progress in turning diamonds into a quantum simulator. By bombarding diamonds with nitrogen atoms, they create flaws in the crystal structure that can be filled with electrons possessing quantum properties. The team demonstrated that their diamond-based system can simulate complex quantum dynamics and keep the system stable for up to 10 milliseconds at room temperature. This advancement opens up possibilities for studying quantum physics, developing sensitive quantum sensors, and collaborating across disciplines.
Scientists at Radboud University have developed a quantum simulator that can create synthetic molecules that closely mimic real ones, allowing them to modify molecular properties in ways typically challenging with real molecules. The simulator enables a deeper understanding of molecular reactions and has potential applications ranging from developing new materials for future computer hardware to potentially functioning as quantum computers in the future. The researchers created an artificial version of benzene, a basic organic molecule in chemistry, and the uses of this new technique are endless, including understanding chemical reactions step by step and making artificial single-molecule electronic devices.
Scientists at TU Wien and other institutions have developed a “quantum simulator” using ultracold atomic clouds to model quantum particles in curved spacetime, marking a major step toward reconciling quantum theory and the theory of relativity. The model system offers a tool to study gravitational lensing effects in a quantum field, which may lead to new insights in the elusive field of quantum gravity and other areas of physics. The quantum simulator becomes a new, additional source of information for quantum research – in addition to theoretical calculations, computer simulations, and direct experiments.
Physicists at TU Wien in Vienna have developed a quantum simulator to study the connection between relativity and quantum theory. The simulator creates a "model system" from which one can learn something about the system of actual interest by analogy. The researchers have shown that this quantum simulator works excellently and can recreate physical situations that are so complicated that they cannot be calculated even with supercomputers. The quantum simulator thus becomes a new, additional source of information for quantum research.