We use metals in construction, domestic appliances, vehicles, and many other everyday products. It really can be said that metals have built the modern world. To fine-tune the desired properties of ...

The D-Wave quantum annealer isn’t a general-purpose computer, in that it can only solve a set of problems that can be structured as energy minimizations. And even on those problems, D-Wave employees ...

D-Wave Systems is making some serious waves in the world of quantum computing. You might have heard about quantum computers ...

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an annealing process that may make practical the use of block copolymer (bcp) thin films for patterning ...

Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Center Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) in Switzerland developed a novel single-step thermal annealing process for ...

Quantum algorithms offer hope for tackling computer science problems that are intractable for classical computers 1. However, exponential speed-ups seen in, for example, number factoring 2, have not ...