Two Milestones Overcome Obstacles to a Working System IBM scientists today unveiled two critical advances towards the realization of a practical quantum computer. For the first time,... Read more
Quantum computers are on the way, but this technology has implications for another area that sounds like science fiction: quantum teleportation. Imagine having your MRI results sent directly... Read more
Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is a crucial step toward quantum-computational circuits A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to reg... Read more
An international research group of scientists and engineers led by the University of Bristol, UK, has made an important advance towards a quantum computer by shrinking down key components an... Read more
A normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum computers. An intern... Read more
D-Wave, the small company that sells the world’s only commercial quantum computer, has just bagged an impressive new customer: a collaboration between Google, NASA and the non-profit Univers... Read more
Harnessing the unique features of the quantum world promises a dramatic speed-up in information processing as compared to the fastest classical machines. Scientists from the Group of Philip... Read more
Professor Weimin Chen and his colleagues at Linköping University, in cooperation with German and American researchers, have succeeded in both initializing and reading nuclear spins, relevant... Read more
“This is a revolution not unlike the early days of computing,” Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. But a powerful new... Read more
A novel solution has been identified that will make the production of special class of photons faster and easier In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing th... Read more