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 ...

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

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Explore the potential of quantum computing and the challenges ahead as researchers strive to overcome noise and errors.

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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 ...

There has never been a better time to be in the quantum computing business. “Some 10 years ago, it was not obvious that quantum computing was more than an interesting lab experiment. Since then, an ...

Every week quantum computing hits a new milestone: more qubits, fewer errors, better readout of results. But will these breakthroughs help solve the advanced computational problems facing energy, like ...

In 2019, Google claimed that its quantum computer, Sycamore, could complete calculations that would take 10,000 years to run on the world’s leading supercomputer – a feat of “quantum supremacy”. Last ...