Thermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulator

This post was contributed by Mao Lin, Bruno Camino, John Buckeridge and Scott M. Woodley Many advanced materials — from battery electrodes to semiconductor alloys — owe their useful properties to atomic-scale disorder. But predicting how atoms arrange themselves at a given temperature is hard: the number of possible configurations explodes combinatorially and sampling them […]