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A model exactly solves an open physics problem

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A Brookhaven physicist used OpenAI's o3-mini-high to exactly solve the q=3 case of the one-dimensional J1-J2 Potts model.

Reporting date: 2026-01-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The first physics problem in the corpus closed by a model rather than assisted by one.

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A model exactly solves an open physics problem
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Reporting date: 2026-01-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-08-o3-solves-potts-model
Claim: A Brookhaven physicist used OpenAI's o3-mini-high to exactly solve the q=3 case of the one-dimensional J1-J2 Potts model.
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- Welcome to January 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-8-2026
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