History has a flawless track record of foreshadowing trouble for next-big-thing technologies and innovations -- and quantum computing just made the list.

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Superconductors (materials that conduct electricity without resistance) have fascinated physicists for more than a century. While conventional superconductors are well understood, a new class of ...

Californian John Martinis won a Nobel Prize for physics work he did decades ago. Today, he's on a quest to create the fastest quantum computers in existence.

The neutral-atom platform appears promising for scaling up quantum computers. To solve some of the toughest challenges in physics, chemistry, and other fields, quantum computers will eventually need ...

"You're basically creating molecular circuits in the machine's memory versus connecting together a bunch of steps in a piece of software," said Bill Vass.

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation promises to allow researchers to solve problems in areas from chemistry to ...

That circuit was a superconducting device called a Josephson junction and their work in the 1980s led to the development of some of today’s most promising technologies for quantum computers.

Most modern quantum computers need to be cooled and vacuum-sealed to protect qubits with special properties. At Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in Tennessee, Quantum Brilliance recently integrated the ...

While the age of quantum computers—machines capable of solving problems better than even the best supercomputers—is not yet upon us, a flurry of breakthroughs in the last year has brought the future ...

The Nobel Prizes usually follow the same schedule each time. First the prize for Medicine is announced, followed by Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Economics.