Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line ...

A truly useful quantum computer must be able to run any algorithm, with the same versatility an ordinary laptop offers.

Recent improvements in our understanding of how the principles of thermodynamics apply in the quantum realm could give a ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use the power of quantum mechanics, the rules that govern how physics operates at ...

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 ...

Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the cloud in 2028, which will require a real leap in engineering ...

The new startup raised $300 million co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed the world's fastest quantum computer prototype, named Jiuzhang 4.0, capable of ...

A heat engine small enough to fit inside a superconducting circuit has converted heat into measurable work near absolute zero ...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 (Reuters) - A new critique in the scientific journal Nature is raising fresh questions about Microsoft's claimed quantum computing breakthrough last year, ...

A University at Buffalo physicist has received two U.S. Department of Defense grants totaling $1.1 million to study the quantum dynamics that could help advance neutral-atom quantum computing.