IBM introduced two new quantum chips in latest step forward The Nighthawk chip increases circuit complexity by 30% over its ...

Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once. If that sounds complicated, it is. Physicists often rely on ...

Roughly 80 years ago, the world was at war. Under a shroud of secrecy, scientists in the U.K., Germany and the U.S. were creating the first electronic computers. These computers filled rooms, demanded ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and ...

Quantum computers should be powerful enough to crack Bitcoin’s security features—by instantly solving the mining mechanism or ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...