There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would ...

IN 2013 GOOGLE and NASA, America’s space agency, launched a quantum computing lab. The idea was to use a specialised quantum ...

For decades, computers have become faster, smaller, and more powerful. But even the world’s best supercomputers have limits. Some calculations would take them thousands or even millions of years to ...

For the first time, a quantum computer has successfully measured pairing correlations (quantum signals that show electrons teaming up in pairs), which is essential to helping scientists find one of ...

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 ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see ...