Quantum computers have long promised to surpass their classical counterparts, but concretely demonstrating this advantage remains a major challenge. A team of researchers has just taken a significant ...

Physicist Peter P. Orth (left) and computer scientist Markus Bläser are collaborating on the QIAPO project with industry partners Infineon and BMW, as well as the quantum startup planqc, to explore ...

Nvidia and others are developing new software, hardware, and AI to enable quantum ...

The promise of quantum computers appears to be that they will upend modern computing as we know it. With exceptional computational power, they’ll be performing feats unimaginable for any classical ...

Quantum computing marks a major change in how we process information. It goes beyond the binary limits of classical "bits," which exist only as 0 or 1. Instead, it uses "qubits" that can exist in ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Classical public-key cryptography derives its security from integer factorisation. Diagram by Venus Kolhi. Quantum computers bring exponential computing power, ultrafast calculations, advanced ...

Nvidia claims to have kicked off the “quantum-GPU computing era,” unveiling a way for quantum computers to interconnect with classical systems. Revealed at the chip giant’s GTC event in Washington, ...

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 ...

Picture a quantum computer. Are you imagining an ordinary computer, but somehow just better? If so, that would be a mistake, because quantum computers are fundamentally different. They rely on exotic ...