The complex problems that quantum computers could solve. How healthcare and logistics companies benefit from ultra-fast processing. The small players and hyperscalers building the future of quantum.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by ...

One of the first and most promising uses scientists envision for the rapidly evolving technology of quantum computing is a new approach to drug development. A quantum computer could, in theory ...

D-Wave Quantum QBTS shares soared over 25% on Tuesday after the company announced its next-generation Advantage quantum computing system. Featuring D-Wave's most advanced quantum processor to date ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A quantum material, MnBi₆Te₁₀, was found to naturally form one of the world’s thinnest semiconductor p-n junctions, measuring just 3.3 nm. This junction ...

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Quantum on Tuesday announced the general availability of its sixth-generation quantum computer, the Advantage2. The company said the Advantage2 offers orders-of ...

I’m currently on a cruise sailing across Alaska and for the last 5 days I’ve been staying in a balcony cabin. Normally I’m happy with an inside cabin or perhaps an ocean view but as I was ...

The company introduced its sixth-generation quantum computer this week. Investors and analysts are impressed by the technology. A JPMorgan Chase report seemed to suggest that the company is an ...

There, Heisenberg developed the framework of quantum mechanics. At the time, quantum theory was just a loose collection of ideas about the quirks of physics on the scale of atoms. In June 1925 ...