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Physicists Designed a Quantum Rubik's Cube and Found the Best Way to Solve It
Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal.
A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik's cube, with infinite possible states and some weird new moves available to solve it. In the case of the infamous cube, that's around 43 quintillion possible combinations of small colored blocks being sorted into six, consistently-colored faces through a series of constrained movements. Noah Lordi, Akira Kyle, Josh Combes.After a solver works through the permutations using their allowed moves – either classical, quantum, or both – the solution is then verified through a 'referee.'
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