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Nanophysics Feb 27, 2023

New material may offer key to solving quantum computing issue

A new form of heterostructure of layered two-dimensional (2D) materials may enable quantum computing to overcome key barriers to its widespread application, according to an international team of researchers.

Quantum Physics Feb 23, 2023

Google hails 'key milestone' in quantum computing

Google scientists said Wednesday they have passed a major milestone in their quest to develop effective quantum computing, with a new study showing they reduced the rate of errors—long an obstacle for the much-hyped technology.

Superconductivity Feb 22, 2023

Deepfreeze electronics for supercomputers—technology prepares quantum computing for industrial use

Quantum computers are highly energy-efficient and extremely powerful supercomputers. But for these machines to realize their full potential in new applications like artificial intelligence or machine learning, researchers ...

Quantum Physics Feb 14, 2023

Securing supply chains with quantum computing

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown how vulnerable global supply chains can be. International events can disrupt manufacturing, delay shipping, induce panic buying and send energy costs soaring.

Quantum Physics Feb 14, 2023

Encoding breakthrough allows for solving wider set of applications using neutral-atom quantum computers

QuEra Computing, maker of the world's first and only publicly accessible neutral-atom quantum computer—Aquila—today announces its research team has uncovered a method to perform a wider set of optimization calculations than ...

Superconductivity Feb 9, 2023

Evidence for a chiral superconductor could bring quantum computing closer to the mainstream

The University of Tennessee's physicists have led a scientific team that found silicon—a mainstay of the soon-to-be trillion-dollar electronics industry—can host a novel form of superconductivity that could bring rapidly ...

Quantum Physics Feb 8, 2023

Another step towards practical quantum computers

Researchers from the University of Sussex and Universal Quantum have demonstrated for the first time that quantum bits (qubits) can directly transfer between quantum computer microchips and demonstrated this with record-breaking ...

Quantum Physics Feb 7, 2023

Microscopy images could lead to new ways to control excitons for quantum computing

Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow's quantum computers and are central to optoelectronics and energy-harvesting processes. However, these charge-neutral quasiparticles, which exist ...

Quantum Physics Jan 30, 2023

New analog quantum computers to solve previously unsolvable problems

Physicists have invented a new type of analog quantum computer that can tackle hard physics problems that the most powerful digital supercomputers cannot solve.

Quantum Physics Jan 12, 2023

Quantum computers threaten our whole cybersecurity infrastructure: Here's how scientists can bulletproof it

Thirteen, 53 and 433. That's the size of quantum computers in terms of quantum bits, or qubits, which has significantly grown in the last years due to important public and private investments and initiatives. Obviously, it ...

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