Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

When a quantum computer processes data, it must translate it into understandable quantum data. Algorithms that carry out this 'quantum compilation' typically optimize one target at a time. However, a ...

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

Quantum HPC co-location isn't necessary for most hybrid algorithms, a cross-lab study by AWS, NVIDIA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and NASA has found. Their Rcc metric shows most NISQ ...

A search problem refers to the task of finding a solution within some space of possible options, and that space could be made up of discrete steps or continuously varying values. For example, solving ...

There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would ...

MIT’s Peter Shor explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption Internet security relies on the fact that our computers can’t break its ...

The race to build larger and more powerful quantum computers has mostly focused on ...

Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a Topological Core based on a revolutionary new class of materials developed by Microsoft. Photos by John Brecher for Microsoft. In a previous article I ...