The low-noise, high-gain properties needed for high-performance quantum computing can be realized in a microwave photonic ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and ...

The race to build reliable quantum computers is fraught with obstacles, and one of the most difficult to overcome is related ...

Two physicists at the University of Konstanz are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits "fly ...

Physicists are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits 'fly'. Two physicists at the ...

Quantum key distribution promises ultra-secure communication by using the strange rules of quantum physics to detect eavesdroppers instantly. But even the most secure quantum link can falter if the ...

The heart and sole of quantum computing – its quantum bits – tend to have a short shelf life but scientists are looking at a way to keep them around longer. Physicists have found a way to drastically ...

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

A future quantum network may become less of a stretch thanks to researchers at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Cambridge University. A team of researchers announced a ...

Researchers and tech companies are in a global race to develop quantum computers that can solve hard scientific problems that conventional computers can’t, and that they hope can eventually support ...