Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran an algorithm for a quantum computer that solved a complex physics problem thousands of times faster than the world's ...

A research team from Google Quantum AI has developed a new quantum algorithm that is intended to enable a verifiable quantum advantage over conventional hardware. The algorithm is nicknamed Quantum ...

Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core ...

Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a Topological Core based on a revolutionary new class of materials developed by Microsoft. Photos by John Brecher for Microsoft. In a previous article I ...

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...