A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...

Bitcoin isn't under attack by a quantum computer right now.

Quantum computing has long promised to crack problems that defeat even the fastest supercomputers, but the hardware has struggled to scale beyond fragile laboratory prototypes. A new generation of ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than ...

Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will ...

Quantum computing technology is complex, getting off the ground and maturing. There is promise of things to come. potentially changing the computing paradigm.

Devices that can confine individual electrons are potential building blocks for quantum information systems. But the electrons must be protected from external disturbances. RIKEN researchers have now ...