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Frontier Brief · Collision 2026

Artificial intelligence×Quantum mechanics

40.7Collision Index
2.5%historical odds of first co-publication

This pair ranks in the top 0.1% of every collision candidate in the corpus. Across held-out years, pairs scoring that well went on to co-publish at 7.2× the base rate, typically within 2 years.

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The Frontier Brief for this collision is still being written. The evidence below already reflects the current model run.

Players in this space · predicted

Pre-company space. No named players have staked this collision yet — an emerging pairing where the field, not a firm, is the story so far.

Who actually spans both fields · graph-verified

13 researchers publish on both sides of this collision without the fields themselves having met. Every name below is counted from papers in the corpus — not inferred.

ResearcherAI / QM
  • Alán Aspuru‐GuzikDelft University of Technology
    32
  • Yu ZhangHangzhou Normal University
    31
  • Jacob M. TaylorUniversität Innsbruck
    12
  • Giuseppe CarleoInstitute for Theoretical Physics
    12
  • Andrew J. BallardSyracuse University
    21
  • Christoph KreisbeckU.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
    11
  • Davide PierangeliInstitute for Complex Systems
    11
  • Matthias TroyerInstitute for Theoretical Physics
    11
  • Ulysse RégladeUniversity of Oslo
    11
  • Claudio ContiInstitute for Complex Systems
    11
Institutionpapers each side
  • Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS
    23682
  • Stanford UniversityUS
    35537
  • Chinese Academy of SciencesCN
    18271
  • Harvard UniversityUS
    18264
  • ETH ZurichCH
    15364
  • Google (United States)US
    38722
Closest work to the seambridge fields touched

Counted from the corpus. Institution counts use best-effort affiliation (every author on a paper is paired with every institution on it), so read them as presence, not headcount.

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