Artificial intelligence is the headline-grabbing technology story today, but in the background, you'll hear the term quantum computing. Quantum computing could dramatically increase the computing ...

What is it about quantum computers that makes them more powerful than conventional machines? A new experiment shows that the property of “quantum contextuality” may be a key ingredient. Quantum ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works extremely well in its own domain: Quantum theory explains how atoms and ...

A new presidential initiative called QMIT will advance the development of quantum technologies—and help ensure that they are used for good. As MIT navigates a difficult and constantly changing higher ...

A new year, a new quantum computing breakthrough: D-Wave, one of the quantum industry’s rising stars, announced “an industry-first breakthrough” on Tuesday as it works to make quantum computing ...

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

In an effort to solve the riddle of why we have subjective conciousness, scientists have develop myriad theories, including ones involving the quantum realm. A new theory suggests that consciousness ...

Quantum computing is on course to take several steps forward this year. Quantum computing is a cutting-edge technology that has yet to be proven out, but numerous companies are working on producing ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation. Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly ...

The vast problem-solving potential of quantum computing, along with its deep ties to artificial intelligence, health care, materials science and cybersecurity, underlines how important the industry is ...

While larger players like Google and International Business Machines threaten to steal its shine, D-Wave Quantum deserves credit for being the first pure-play quantum computing company to ...