Quantum Physics2026-03-031 minarXiv:2603.03496expressQuantum Computer Finds What Classical Couldn'tIBM's Heron R3 quantum computer handled a task that made a classical method back down. The challenge was finding the ground state, the lowest energy level, of a system of 49 quantum bits.William Kirby·Bibek Pokharel·Javier Robledo Moreno·Kevin C. Smith·Sergey Bravyi·Abhinav Deshpande·Constantinos Evangelinos·Bryce Fuller·James R. Garrison·Ben Jaderberg·Caleb Johnson·Petar Jurcevic·Su-un Lee·Simon Martiel·Mario Motta·Seetharami Seelam·Oles Shtanko·Kevin J. Sung·Minh Tran·Vinay Tripathi +8Alexei KitaevDavid DeutschErwin Schrödingerquantum algorithmquantum computerquantum simulatorquantum informationStandard Model👍👎☆SimplePopularAdvanced