The hardest idea in quantum mechanics to hold in a non-physicist’s head is that a thing can be in two states at once. Not ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university blackboards: a quantum computer. These days, quantum computers—which ...

Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

A new facility in Queensland will allow researchers from academia and industry to test new ideas on a real quantum processor.

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

Quantum computing should be viewed as a powerful new tool for solving specific classes of exceptionally difficult problems.​ ...

Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, including chemistry, physics, and cryptography, but proving they will be superior has been challenging.

I founded Xanadu to build the world’s first scalable quantum computer. Keeping the industry here may be even harder.

Aaron Lauda has been exploring an area of mathematics that most physicists have seen little use for, wondering if it might have practical applications. In a twist even he didn’t expect, it turns out ...

Medical imaging methods such as ultrasound and MRI are often affected by background noise, which can introduce blurring and obscure fine anatomical details in the images. For clinicians who depend on ...