A national lab replicates a condensed-matter paper with agents

Claim

Lawrence Berkeley deployed an agentic physics framework to flawlessly replicate a 2023 condensed-matter paper on emergent magnetic monopole lattices, which the lab hailed as proof that agents can execute hardcore physics end to end.

Reporting date: 2026-05-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to May 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)