Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward—is one image that helps us picture how a quantum computer handles ...

These novel error-correction codes can handle quantum codes with hundreds of thousands of qubits, potentially enabling large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing, with applications in diverse fields ...

Quantum computers have immense potential because they could perform highly complex calculations much faster than current supercomputers. However, the hurdle to the practical application of quantum ...

Quantum computers struggle because their qubits are incredibly easy to disrupt, especially during calculations. A new experiment shows how to perform quantum operations while continuously fixing ...

In recent years, quantum computers have begun to handle double-digit quantum bits, or qubits. However, many essential applications targeted by quantum computers, such as quantum chemistry, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small ...

Quantinuum has unveiled a third-generation quantum computer that could be easier to scale up than rival approaches. The US- and UK-based company Quantinuum today unveiled Helios, its third-generation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at the Institute of Science Tokyo have announced a breakthrough in quantum error ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

The new product line is based on an open and modular error correction stack, which will allow end-users to experiment and run different quantum error correction ...

Quantum computing has long lived in the realm of lab demos and bold PowerPoint slides, but two of the industry’s biggest players now say the first truly useful machines are less than five years away.