Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

Researchers have demonstrated that the theoretically optimal scaling for magic state distillation—a critical bottleneck in fault-tolerant quantum computing—is achievable for qubits, improving on the ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is. Reading time 3 minutes The entire spiel of ...

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

Time seems to be one of the most obvious things in the universe: it moves forward, seconds change minutes, and the past ...