Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

Quantum computers use what are known as qubits to tackle problems that would take conventional computers thousands of years to crack - problems such as how trillions of atoms react over time. However, ...

Paris-based quantum computing startup Alice & Bob has announced a stunning breakthrough in quantum computing: its qubits can now resist bit-flip errors for more than an hour. That’s four times longer ...

Quantinuum has unveiled a third-generation quantum computer that could be easier to scale up than rival approaches. The US- and UK-based company Quantinuum today unveiled Helios, its third-generation ...

Scientists have achieved the lowest quantum computing error rate ever recorded — an important step in solving the fundamental challenges on the way to practical ...

These novel error-correction codes can handle quantum codes with hundreds of thousands of qubits, potentially enabling large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing, with applications in diverse fields ...

Making quantum computers fault-tolerant (and scaling effective error correction to enable this) is a key barrier to a new era of quantum supremacy. A new study ...

In 2022, USTC researchers led by quantum physicist Pan Jianwei demonstrated the proof of principle by achieving a minimal-error-correcting unit: a distance-3 surface code logical qubit. The next year, ...

ST. LOUIS – Quantum computing remains a work in progress, but one of the bigger challenges toward perfecting the technology remains getting a handle on errors generated by such high-powered compute ...

Quantum computers made from qubits based on extremely cold atoms have been getting larger at an impressive rate, which may soon make them computationally powerful – but errors arise at a rate that ...

What if the most complex problems plaguing industries today—curing diseases, optimizing global supply chains, or even securing digital communication—could be solved in a fraction of the time it takes ...