What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world's population—most of them ...

Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...

To honor the 100 th anniversary of quantum mechanics — a revolution in physics as profound as the theory of evolution was for ...

With the development, Microsoft is raising the stakes in what is set to be the next big technological contest.

By integrating topoconductors and Majorana particles, Microsoft has mapped out a viable route to a million-qubit quantum chip ...

A collaboration between a fiber optic expert and the Duke Quantum Center looks to scale up quantum computing power.

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics phenomena, could eventually tackle some optimization and ...

With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies ...

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding a new research project, entitled Quantenrepeater.Net (QR.N), which aims to demonstrate the viability of quantum repeaters over ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

Find out the main objectives of the DOE Energy Quantum Leadership Act, introduced by Senators Dick Durbin and Steve Daines.

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, JILA Fellow and University of Colorado Boulder physics professor Cindy ...