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Only hydrogen has an analytic solution. Even helium requires approximations because the electrons interact. Approximation requires an understanding of the struc
by danharaj 6y ago
Only hydrogen has an analytic solution. Even helium requires approximations because the electrons interact. Approximation requires an understanding of the structure of the wavefunction which gets increasingly complex as we add more particles to the system that interact and entangle with one another like electrons in an atom do. Even further, that's for single atoms that aren't interacting strongly with their environment. Here we're talking about an ensemble of nitrogen atoms interacting with each other in a somewhat extreme environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree%E2%80%93Fock_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree%E2%80%93Fock_method
- goalieca 6y agoAll of the cool computer science problems are in the other sciences. This one in particular looks like a challenging engineering problem to scale up.
- v77 6y agoAccording to 'Devs', you just need a few quantum computers and lots of gold tinfoil.
- ShamelessC 6y agoDon't forget the vacuum sealed quantum levitating elevator!
- tim333 6y agoThis is one of the things that makes me think we are not living in a computer simulation - the physics is really hard to simulate. Unless the simulation is just fooling us to think that ;)
- thecupisblue 6y agoIt may just be rendering what we observe.