For the past six years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces variational quantum computing: the barren plateau.

After decades spent gestating in labs, quantum computing has finally reached an inflection point between theoretical promise and practical implementation. From discoveries in pharmaceutical and ...

Last year Universal Quantum, the quantum computing firm spun out of Sussex University, announced it was collaborating with the Open Quantum Institute (OQI) on using quantum computing in drug discovery ...

You might think that creating a highly accurate model of the way air passes through a jet engine would be relatively easy. It is incredibly hard. The enormous number of variables means that it is, in ...

IBM and collaborators say their quantum computers outperform all known classical algorithms for three distinct tasks, but ...

Quantum computing has spent a long time living in the future. For much of the past decade, the narrative has been consistent.

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The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

Discover how IBM's acquisition of HRL Laboratories is set to enhance its quantum computing capabilities, driving innovation ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Utah is moving to establish itself in the emerging quantum computing industry, betting that early investment and coordination ...

Xanadu has recently released results pioneering the use of quantum computers to simulate important light-matter interactions in photosensitizers, which are critical for determining key properties that ...