quantum computers

For decades, scientists have struggled to define the stuff that comprises a quarter of the universe: dark matter. As…

Between the mountainous and coastal vistas of Goleta, California, sits an unassuming office on the side of a…

This morning, Google scientists confirmed in a blog post that their quantum computer had needed just 200 seconds to…

Headlines have boldly proclaimed that Google achieved “quantum supremacy” after the Financial Times on Friday leaked…

A Google researcher’s paper claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy, a major early milestone in the field of…

The quantum internet is coming sooner than you think—even sooner than quantum computing itself. When things change…

A system that can distinguish phonons, the smallest units of sound, marks an important milestone in the development…

You may have heard of the famous P versus NP problem. If you can prove or disprove its cryptically short equation,…

Any day now, quantum computers will solve a problem too hard for a classical computer to take on. Or at least,…

Within days of each other back in 1998, two teams published the results of the first real-world quantum…

The road ahead is rocky for those hoping to build quantum computers, according to a new report from the National…

Blockchain is meant to be secure—but a new paper from quantum computing scientists warns that quickly advancing…

It takes little more than logging on to see the flaws in today’s internet—mainly, how easy it is to steal or…

Entrepreneurs and physicists are pursuing a new kind of computer—one based on the physics of the subatomic…

In a hot tub in 2012, physicist Seth Lloyd pitched a quantum internet application to Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry…

The House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act yesterday. When signed into law, the bill…

You’ve just booted up a game on a state-of-the-art quantum computer. You’re running 19 superconducting quantum bits…

Last year, we reported that a new era of quantum computing is upon us: the NISQ, or Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum…

If you’ve read anything about quantum computers, you may have encountered the statement, “It’s like computing with…