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 ...

After decades spent gestating in labs, quantum computing has finally reached an inflection point between theoretical promise and practical implementation. From discoveries in pharmaceutical and ...

A new nanofabrication approach could increase the range of quantum networks from a few kilometers to a potential 2,000 km, ...

For decades, quantum computing has been heralded as a technology of the future, promising to solve problems far beyond the ...

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Quantum teleportation has moved from science fiction into laboratory reality, but not in the way popular culture imagines.

You might be familiar with the qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum information. As its name suggests, a qubit in a quantum computer performs the same function as a bit in a classical computer, with ...

Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

Princeton researchers have created a superconducting qubit that stays stable more than three times longer than previous designs, marking a major leap toward practical quantum computers.

For decades, Moore’s Law has held true, with computing power doubling roughly every two years as transistors shrink and costs ...

Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of Illinois and technology companies pouring millions of dollars into developing a campus to build the world’s first ...

The recent Project Eleven bounty for quantum computers cracking cryptographic keys is a joke. It provides no serious incentive at all. Recently, Project Eleven (a quantum computing research group) ...