A device made from superconducting qubits could prove a powerful technology for enabling practical quantum computing or more ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

Kai Sun of the University of Michigan is a humble physics professor with ambitious goals. "I'm mainly a paper-and-pencil type ...

Besides expanding our understanding of foundational physics, the team's breakthrough has significant potential applications in fields such as quantum information and quantum computing.

The difference between traditional computers and quantum computers is narrowing in their ability to simulate the scrambling ...

How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a strange new behavior in “heavy” electrons — particles that act as if they carry far more ...

Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces ...

One notable example is the $34 million secured by British quantum algorithms specialist Phasecraft from a group of investors, ...

For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how to use it to paint a ...

He said the rules of chemistry are sometimes enough, but often, they fall short. Quantum physics offers a master formula — the Schrödinger equation — for predicting how matter behaves.