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Quantum computers are on the edge of revealing new particle physics

Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that happen inside particle colliders

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

4 June 2025

Quantum computers can simulate the behaviour of high-energy particles

Google Quantum AI, designed by Sayo Studio

Quantum computers are beginning to become powerful tools for studying some of the most fundamental forces in the universe – and some of the trickiest to understand. Two experiments have used them to pave a new way forward for nuclear and particle physics.

“We have this sort of grand scheme where we eventually want to do quantum computing for high-energy physics,” says Torsten Zache at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. “There’s a strong consensus that large-scale quantum computers will actually be able to…

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