Work provides window into quantum world

Try to simulate interactions among more than a few of the atoms and other tiny particles that make up matter and the universe down on the quantum level, and you've quickly outrun the capabilities of even the most powerful supercomputer.

There's just too much stuff interacting in too many ways, some of them bizarre from our perspective, for a conventional computer to process these "many-bodied problems" in the lifetime of not just one researcher, but a whole lot of them.

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