The dream scenario for quantum computing, when the concept was first proposed back in the 1980s, was to develop a...

Charlie Nation1 and Diego Porras21Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, United Kingdom.2Institute of Fundamental Physics, IFF-CSIC, Calle Serrano...

MIT researchers have developed a novel cryptography circuit that can be used to protect low-power “internet of things” (IoT) devices...

Dominic W. Berry1, Craig Gidney2, Mario Motta3, Jarrod R. McClean2, and Ryan Babbush21Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia2Google...

Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, has received the 2018 Micius Quantum Prize, which is awarded within...

MIT researchers have designed a way to generate, at room temperature, more single photons for carrying quantum information. The design, they say, holds promise...

In the previous blog post (titled, “On the Coattails of Quantum Supremacy“) we started with Google and ended up with molecules! I also...

Zhenyu Cai1,2, Michael A. Fogarty1,3, Simon Schaal3, Sofia Patomäki1,3, Simon C. Benjamin1,2, and John J. L. Morton1,3,4 1Quantum Motion Technologies Ltd, Nexus, Discovery Way, Leeds,...

Fatih Dinc1,2, İlke Ercan3, and Agata M. Brańczyk11Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada2Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford,...

Most readers have by now heard that Google has “achieved” quantum “supremacy”. Notice the only word not in quotes is “quantum”, because unlike previous...

Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup1, Nicolas Delfosse2, Vedran Dunjko3, Hans J. Briegel1,4, and Nicolai Friis5,11Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 21a, A-6020 Innsbruck,...

Archana Kamal was hunting for an apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was moving MIT, to work as a postdoc in physics. The first...