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

No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already ...

Using light to process quantum information is one of the most promising approaches to building future quantum computers.

Quantum computers hold great promise for applications from drug discovery to cybersecurity. Yet figuring out what would give ...

IBM has shown off designs for cooling hardware it says will allow quantum computers to scale.

IBM and collaborators say their quantum computers outperform all known classical algorithms for three distinct tasks, but proving quantum advantage in an absolute sense is difficult. All three ...

The hardest idea in quantum mechanics to hold in a non-physicist’s head is that a thing can be in two states at once. Not ...

Quantum computing should be viewed as a powerful new tool for solving specific classes of exceptionally difficult problems.​ ...

A number of companies, betting on various architectural approaches, are trying to build the first commercially viable quantum computer capable of significantly outperforming current systems. Oratomic, ...

By leveraging quantum mechanics, this type of computing accelerates processing speeds and technological progress ...

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 ...