The world's first portable, room-temperature quantum computer with more than 10 qubits utilizes flawed lab-made diamonds. The ...

D-Wave's massive January acquisition of Quantum Circuits is paying off: way better error correction, making quantum computing ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university ...

Quantum computers process information in a fundamentally different way from conventional computers, using quantum bits, or ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

IBM and collaborators say their quantum computers outperform all known classical algorithms for three distinct tasks, but ...

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 ...

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

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