A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

Magnetic materials are used to make MRI machines, hard drives, wireless chargers, and phone speakers. It takes a lot of expensive research and development to create new materials. “And there’s no ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

A team of quantum computer researchers at quantum computer maker D-Wave, working with an international team of physicists and engineers, is claiming that its latest quantum processor has been used to ...

Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a panel at CES in January expressed his view as to when quantum computing might become a practical reality: “If you said 15 years for very useful quantum computers, that ...

As quantum computing develops, scientists are working to identify tasks for which quantum computers have a clear advantage over classical computers. So far, researchers have only pinpointed a handful ...

Quantum computers have the potential to solve big scientific problems that are beyond the reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers, such as discovering new antibiotics or developing new materials ...

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

Quantum chemistry calculations offer the best combination of efficiency and accuracy for predicting molecular properties. But the complexity of density functional theory and other methods makes them ...