Physicists have achieved a breakthrough by using a 58-qubit quantum computer to create and observe a long-theorized but never ...

Experimental device harnesses quantum properties for efficient processing at room temperature. Engineers are working to ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

A device made from superconducting qubits could prove a powerful technology for enabling practical quantum computing or more ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

A quantum computer has reached new heights. The first quantum computer in space is now orbiting Earth on a satellite, scientists report. Launched on June 23, the computer had to be designed to fit in ...

One of the first and most promising uses scientists envision for the rapidly evolving technology of quantum computing is a new approach to drug development. A quantum ...

It may take up to two decades before quantum computing's potential is realised, but countries and corporations are investing heavily in this potentially game-changing technology so that they can be ...