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Quantum Team Encodes Riemann Hypothesis in Five Qubits

8/7/2026

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Shijie Wei of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences led a team that encoded the Riemann hypothesis into a five-qubit system.
The system maps temperature to the real part and evolution time to the imaginary part.
A phase transition appears only when those inputs would make the zeta function zero, detecting disproof-relevant zeros.
Scaling the faster-than-classical algorithm to about 100 qubits could let it check more zeros than any machine.

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Shijie Wei of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences led a team that encoded the Riemann hypothesis into a five-qubit system.
The system maps temperature to the real part and evolution time to the imaginary part.
A phase transition appears only when those inputs would make the zeta function zero, detecting disproof-relevant zeros.
Scaling the faster-than-classical algorithm to about 100 qubits could let it check more zeros than any machine.