Does Quantum Computing Seem Too Complicated?
CSAIL principal investigator Scott Aaronson breaks it down in “Explained.”CSAIL principal investigator Scott Aaronson, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, breaks down...
View ArticleNew ‘Switch’ Could Power Quantum Computing
A light lattice that traps atoms may help scientists build networks of quantum information transmitters.Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light,...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum Computer
Google’s crack at a quantum computer is a bid to change computing forever.Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum computer, a type of machine that can exploit quantum...
View ArticleThree Questions with the CEO of D-Wave
The CEO of quantum computing startup D-Wave says its machines are helping companies analyze Wall Street data and search for new cancer drugs.Ever since D-Wave Systems unveiled what it called the...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Quantum Mechanics
Can an aging corporation’s adventures in fundamental physics research open a new era of unimaginably powerful computers?In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics...
View ArticleGoogle Researchers Make Quantum Computing Components More Reliable
Researchers from a university and Google demonstrate a crucial error-correction step needed to make quantum computing practical.A solution to one of the key problems holding back the development of...
View ArticleIBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip
A new superconducting chip made by IBM demonstrates a technique crucial to the development of quantum computers.A superconducting chip developed at IBM demonstrates an important step needed for the...
View ArticleSecuring Today’s Data Against Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers
Quantum computers are still a distant prospect, but Microsoft researchers say we should strengthen online encryption against them now.Call it an abundance of caution. A Microsoft research project has...
View ArticleGoogle Says It Has Proved Its Controversial Quantum Computer Really Works
Researchers from Google’s AI Lab say a controversial quantum machine that it and NASA have been testing since 2013 resoundingly beat a conventional computer in a series of tests.Google says it has...
View ArticleGoogle's Quantum Dream Machine
Physicist John Martinis could deliver one of the holy grails of computing to Google—a machine that dramatically speeds up today’s applications and makes new ones possible.
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