Over the past decades, quantum scientists have introduced various technologies that operate leveraging quantum mechanical effects, including quantum sensors, computers and memory devices. Most of ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is.

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Two scientists just won computing's Nobel Prize for an idea from 1984: use quantum mechanics to make eavesdropping physically ...

Quantum cryptography poses two questions for higher education technology leaders: What matters now, and what will matter decades from now? These questions are inseparable because quantum computers of ...

Reading time 3 minutes According to physicist Paul Davies, a tried-and-true “quantum” device exploits the odd rules of ...

In new research published in Physical Review X, scientists have designed quantum control protocols that generate processes more consistent with time flowing backward than forward. The ...

The achievement marks the first time scientists have built a device that can be charged, store energy, and release it again ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

At the time, their technique was a fascinating but impractical creation. Forty years later, it is poised to become an ...

Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology that uses the laws of quantum mechanics to speed up calculations and ...