A 21 year old student at Sydney university has helped solve a quantum computing problem with a simple modification. Pablo Bonilla’s first academic paper was published overnight. After being given coding exercises as extra homework, the second-year physics student has helped solve one of the most common problems in quantum computing. Researchers at Yale and Duke in the United States gained interest in his code and well known tech company Amazon is now planning to use it in the quantum computer it is trying to build.