Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that’s exponentially more powerful than conventional ...

IonQ and Quantinuum are battling it out for quantum computing supremacy.

Advances in recent years suggest we are entering the Quantum Frontier Era. National security, science, economic ...

Quantum computing is poised to revolutionize fields ranging from logistics to life sciences, by solving complex problems that are intractable for classical computers. However, several significant ...

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This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics—from magnetism and ...

Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum ...

It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins ...

Joseph P. Carroll supervising operations at one of Davis Group Andreev scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Credit: Catherine Dawson, Davis Group. A research study led by Oxford University has ...

Quantum error correction (QEC) constitutes the foundation of fault-tolerant quantum computation, aiming to preserve fragile quantum information against decoherence ...

The laws of quantum mechanics make it impossible to copy quantum information, but that doesn’t mean quantum computers are unhackable. Two independent teams of researchers have now devised methods for ...