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• News & Views | 01 July 2015

  Worth the wait

  Quantum many-body systems are often so complex as to be intractable. An algorithm that finds the ground state of any one-dimensional quantum system has now been devised, proving that the many-body problem is tractable for quantum spin chains.

  • Frank Verstraete

• Article | 01 June 2015

  A polynomial time algorithm for the ground state of one-dimensional gapped local Hamiltonians

  An algorithm that provably finds the ground state of any one-dimensional quantum system is presented, providing a promising alternative to the widely used, but heuristic, density matrix renormalization group approach.

  • Zeph Landau
  • , Umesh Vazirani
  •  & Thomas Vidick

• Editorial | 30 April 2015

  Beautiful machines

  Physicists are now, as ever, pushing the development of computing technologies. But they're also innovating ways of using them.

• Books & Arts | 18 May 2014

  Break on through

  • Luke Fleet

• Books & Arts | 30 November 2012

  Machines of loving grace

  • Neill Lambert

• Research Highlights | 03 October 2012

  Popularity contested

  • Abigail Klopper