Quantum Computers Just Recreated How Matter Was Born In The Big Bang
Researchers have successfully simulated the birth of fundamental matter on three separate quantum computers, replicating subatomic phenomena observed only in particle colliders or in situ at the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.
Central to the breakthrough lies in the string breaking and hadronization phenomenon, i.e. the mechanism by which elementary quarks are bound together into composite particles, such as protons and neutrons, by strong nuclear force. Since quarks can never exist in isolation, attempting to pull two bound quarks apart does not separate them. Rather, the gluonic string connecting them stretches like an elastic band, storing immense amounts of potential energy. Once the energy density becomes high enough, the string suddenly snaps, converting that accumulated energy into new matter-antimatter particle pairs in accordance with Einstein's equivalence of mass and energy.
Now, simulating this process on traditional binary supercomputers hasn't been possible because quantum chromodynamics interactionsdemand exponential processing...
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