In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

In March, D-Wave announced it performed a materials simulation using quantum technology. A few weeks later, Quantinuum published a paper in Nature detailing how it used the company’s six-qubit ...

Quantum computing is widely believed to be a revolutionary new technology. In fact, it is a double-edged sword. If efficient ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered ...

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they ...

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t ...

A new study addresses a foundational problem in the theory of driven quantum matter by extending the Středa formula to ...

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Encryption—the process of sending a scrambled message that only the intended recipient’s device can decode—allows private and public sectors alike to safeguard information. Traditional encryption uses ...

A device made from superconducting qubits could prove a powerful technology for enabling practical quantum computing or more ...

The Fourier transform is a mathematical operation essential to virtually all fields of physics and engineering. Although there already exists an algorithm that computes the Fourier transform in ...

Quantum information and computation is a very active interdisciplinary area between math, physics, and computer science. Quantum error correction plays a central role ...