Quantum computers hold great promise for applications from drug discovery to cybersecurity. Yet figuring out what would give quantum computers their edge over everyday "classical" computers is a ...

Quantum computing is a delicate technology that requires pinpoint energy accuracy, and that means heat, too. Heat causes ...

AI models have been helping with predictions for a while now. Doctors, weather forecasters and stock brokers all use AI to try to peek into the future. Inside the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in ...

Researchers from MIT have designed a new qubit architecture that enables qubits to interact with each other much more quickly ...

AS THEY ZIP across the internet, passwords, bank transfers, emails and the like are protected from prying eyes by encryption. But no one is quite sure how reliable the technology is. Despite decades ...

Quantum computers are powerful, lightning-fast and notoriously difficult to connect to one another over long distances. Previously, the maximum distance two quantum computers could connect through a ...

A laser’s strongest interaction with a trapped ion can shift sideways, revealing a quantum effect with implications for qubit control.

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they manipulate to function, which can stop calculations dead in their tracks. But ...

IN 2013 GOOGLE and NASA, America’s space agency, launched a quantum computing lab. The idea was to use a specialised quantum computer built by D-Wave, an American firm, to improve the onerous task of ...

Cardano opens review of CIP-0197, a proposal adding optional post-quantum wallet protection through a zero-knowledge proof ...