Episode

Simulating Quantum Materials with Arnab Banerjee

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The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology
Published
Apr 7, 2026
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2407
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Summary

Can a quantum computer reproduce what happens when you fire neutrons at a magnetic crystal? Arnab Banerjee, the experimentalist who discovered the first signatures of a Kitaev quantum spin liquid, just proved it can — benchmarking IBM's Heron processor against real neutron scattering data from national laboratories. This is what quantum utility looks like when it's grounded in decades of experimental physics.