[HN Gopher] Computer science proof unveils unexpected form of en... ___________________________________________________________________ Computer science proof unveils unexpected form of entanglement Author : theafh Score : 42 points Date : 2022-07-18 15:56 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org) | gautamcgoel wrote: | It's funny to see this on the front page of HN. I knew Chinmay | (one of the authors of the paper) back when he was an undergrad | at Caltech. Super cool dude - I knew he'd go on to do great | stuff! Very happy for the team that obtained this result. | Maursault wrote: | I always said that computer science was going to be the method to | complete physics, whether it be finishing the Standard Model or | proving finally Dark Matter is fiction, which is why we can't | detect it. Maybe it's still not entirely clear, but just trust | me. | gigatexal wrote: | " The three authors of the new paper, who had been collaborating | on related projects over the past two years, came together to | prove that one of the new codes had all the properties needed to | make a quantum system of the sort that Freedman and Hastings had | hypothesized. In so doing, they proved the NLTS conjecture. Their | result demonstrates that entanglement is not necessarily as | fragile and sensitive to temperature as physicists thought. And | it supports the quantum PCP conjecture, suggesting that even away | from the ground energy, a quantum system's energy can remain | virtually impossible to calculate. "It tells us that the thing | that seemed unlikely to be true is true," said Isaac Kim of the | University of California, Davis. "Albeit in some very weird | system."" ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-18 23:00 UTC)