Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series of challenges and conundrums. One of them relates ...

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Earlier in January, the Ethereum Foundation formally elevated post-quantum security to a strategic priority, creating a dedicated Post-Quantum team.

The rapid progress of quantum technologies is reshaping the foundations of secure communication. On one hand, quantum ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

A new study suggests that crystal defects in diamond may hold the key to scalable quantum interconnects. Connecting large numbers of quantum bits (qubits) into a working technology remains one of the ...

A successful quantum-safe strategy is built on a unified security platform, not on a collection of point solutions. It ...

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has ...

Quantum computing represents a potential breakthrough technology that could far surpass the technical limitations of ...

Can quantum computing save us from 500 missiles attacking simultaneously? Perhaps ... and it has a far better shot than ...